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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
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 17:07:43 1985
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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