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Mon Oct  5 12:20:29 1981
MMDF
>From decvax!duke!unc!smb@Berkeley Mon Oct  5 12:14:57 1981
In-real-life: Steven M. Bellovin

What ever happened to the spirit of brevity that makes UNIX so
pleasant?  I just recevied -- for the second time -- the following:

       From mmdf@brl Sat Oct  3 16:42:08 1981
       Via: duke!decvax!ucbvax!ucbvax
       Date:     3 Oct 81 9:05:34-EDT (Sat)
       Original-From:     MEMO SERVICE (MMDF) <MMDF@BRL>
       Full-Name: MMDF
       Subject:  Mail not yet sent
       Via: Ing70.BerkNet (V3.45 [10/2/81]); 3 October 1981 06:09-PDT (Saturday)
       To:       decvax!duke!unc!smb at Berkeley

           Your message has not yet been fully delivered, after 2 days.

           This usually is due to service interruptions at the
       receiving machine.  Less often, there are problems with the
       communications system.  In any event, mail is retained in the
       queue for up to 11 days.

           Your message has NOT YET been sent to the following addressee(s):

               wizards at Ll-Asg

           A copy HAS been sent to the following addressee(s):

               mike
               dpk at Bmd70
               gene at Bmd70
               geo at Bmd70
               howard at Bmd70
               jcp at Bmd70
               mike at Bmd70
               rsm at Bmd70
               steve at Bmd70

           Your message begins as follows:

       Via: sri-csl.Arpanet, Wed Sep 30 21:43:58
       Mail-from: ARPANET host SRI-UNIX rcvd at 30-Sep-81 1441-PDT
       Date: 29 Sep 1981 20:08:23-PDT
       From: decvax!duke!unc!smb at Berkeley
       To: decvax!duke!unc!unix-wizards at Berkeley, decvax!duke!unc!shannon
            at Berkeley
       Subject: Re:  bug related to mounted file systems and ..
       Via:  Ucb-C70.ArpaNet; 30 Sep 81 14:35-PDT
       Via:  Sri-Warf; 1 Oct 81 21:51-EDT

       In-real-life: Steven M. Bellovin

       Bill Shannon's second bug is not confined to mounted file systems; it
        ...






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