Is alpha-osf a mail bomb?

From: Dave Sill <de5_at_sws5.CTD.ORNL.GOV>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 07:58:01 -0400 (EDT)

cmr_at_iisc.com wrote:
>Sort of!
>Everyone has it. Many of us have sent email to the list owner.

I fixed the problem as soom as I was made aware of it Friday. I should
have sent something to the list to head off the flood of messages I
received about it, but I didn't.

>However
>he is reportedly out of circulation for awhile )-:

Sorry, I only monitor the list during the week.

>A couple of people mentioned that the list ALPHAOSF_at_SLUVCA.SLU.EDU is the
>root of the problem and Michael Matthews <matthewm_at_sgate.com> copied the
>postmaster there with his reply to me.

I think ALPHAOSF_at_SLUVCA.SLU.EDU is/was actually a misconfigured
mail->news gateway. When I saw what was happening, I immediately
unsubscribed it from the list. Apparently it had a backlog or time
delay, though, because it kept going till some time Saturday.

>Hopefully someone there is reading the mail. I will try cc'ing a few other
>contacts there.

I also sent a message to SLU on Friday, but haven't had any
response. It's bad enough they botched up their gateway and didn't
bother to notice it, but to ignore messages telling them about the
problem and asking them to fix it is downright rude.

Hopefully everything is back to normal.

-Dave
Received on Mon Oct 02 1995 - 13:30:08 NZDT

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