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From: fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair)
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Subject: Re: Braindamaged test messages clogging the net
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Date: 11 May 88 01:29:32 GMT
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Frankly, I am amazed that awk didn't blow up on this. If I recall
correctly, the entire "To:" field is done by one printf, on the
(obviously erroneous) assumption that there wouldn't be too many
addresses...

What's really fun is that I'm getting all these bounces from
addresses that the awk script didn't guess too well on (the same
ones that I got from the previous month's tests). Needless to say,
this does not make me happy. Fortunately, I just converted to using
mh, and I can (and do) pick these gems out of the inbox and file
them in another folder before dealing with my regular mail...

So, can anyone think of a suitable punishment for these two
ignoramuses?

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu