Fun_People Archive
31 Mar
What? Cannot send message for . . .

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 98 19:53:12 -0800
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Subject: What?  Cannot send message for . . . 

    Running an e-mail list like Fun_People gives me the chance to see every  
possible kind of "bounce" message, from the all too common ones like  
"Poe@raven.com - unknown user" to the more biblical "Connection timed out with  
ark.com.   Message could not be delivered for 40 days."
    But my favorite for all out computer impatience (and no, I am absolutely  
not making this one up, although I have changed the bouncer's address to  
"foo") is:

> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 03:32:01 +0200
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@gate2.volkswagen.de>
> Subject: Returned mail: Cannot send message for zero seconds
> To: <psl@langston.com>
>
> The original message was received at Wed, 1 Apr 1998 03:28:39 +0200
> from smap@localhost
>
>    ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
> <foo@vwmail.de>  (unrecoverable error)
>
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> <foo@vwmail.de>... Deferred: Network is unreachable
> Message could not be delivered for zero seconds
> Message will be deleted from queue
  . . .

    Do you suppose the new VW is really that fast?

	- Peter

© 1998 Peter Langston