uucp's mailbox filling up with rejected crontab job log

From: Eric Wyn Jones (01248-382407) <"Eric>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 21:32:06 +0100 (BST)

Help - uucp's mailbox is filling up with the following message ...

>From daemon Wed May 1 23:49:38 1996
Received: by hurix; id AA00380; Wed, 1 May 1996 23:49:37 +0100
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 23:49:37 +0100
From: system PRIVILEGED account <root>
Message-Id: <9605012249.AA00380_at_hurix>
Apparently-To: uucp

Your crontab file has an error in it.
        uucp
        unexpected symbol found
This entry has been ignored.
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This crontab entry seems to have been set up by the installation
process - anybody got a quick fix for this bug ?

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