Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!ptsfa!qantel!hplabs!sri-unix!knutsen From: knutsen@sri-unix.ARPA Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: huge messages Message-ID: <704@sri-arpa.ARPA> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 17:07:43 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.704 Posted: Mon Oct 28 17:07:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 02:33:04 EST Lines: 20 From: knutsen (Andrew Knutsen) Those huge messages were due to a mailer off in some remote part of the net sending error messages back to the "from" address. The new digesting software, in order to facilitate replys to the list, lists the list as the "from" address. So, when that mailer didnt recover from its "internal error"s in a reasonable amount of time.... What Ive done for now is remove the offending site from the list. Fortunately that site also sent out "date" lines in a format "rnews" couldnt parse, so none of the cruft leaked into Usenet (as far as I can tell). However, Im not too sure about an appropriate final solution. The choice seems to be to pray that very few sites have long-term problems and also send errors to the "from" address, or to list "physics-request" as the "from" address which will result in misdirected traffic to me on some replies. Any other ideas? Andrew, physics-request