wierd messages

[Alan D Filewod]

On Wed, 19 Apr 1995, Ed Mullaly wrote:
 
> Kathy Chung's recent query concerning messages getting bounced back to the
> sender is not a question easily answered.  There are many reasons for this.
> Sometimes the address no longer exists.  Sometimes the recipient's mainframe
> computer is 'down'.  Etc, etc.
>         I receive a copy of each of these error messages, as does the
> original sender, and try to track down reasons for the rejections.
> Sometimes the best plan seems to be to do nothing for a while -- a recent
> message didn't reach Filewod and Lane at Guelph because, as far as I can
> tell, the mainframe there didn't want to receive messages for three days
> straight.  (This I take to be a momentary glitch which is to be expected in
> a province run by the NDP.)  Messages sent to Glasgow come back with
> predictable frequency; I'm trying to check out the problem before taking
> these nonfunctioning addresses off the Candrama list.
>         Sorry for the problems.
>
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And that message would have been.....?
Still waiting in Guelph.....