Re: DISTRIBUTION - Arco's system

[James Mahaffy <mahaffy@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> What the heck are these Re: DISTRIBUTION STATUS letters I keep receiving? 
> Does anyone know?  Perhaps the listowner?  I have received about a dozen of
> them in the past few days from this list, do they mean anything in
> particular?
> 
> Thanks for your help if you can.
> Catalinus@aol.com
> 
What it means is that Arco's mail system has a problem.  For some reason
it can not deliver mail to someone at Arco.   Since computers are
efficient and we like to know if mail did not go through, Arco's
computer sends a message back to the sender telling the sender the mail
did not get to the person every time it receives a post for the
peleontologist at Arco.  Normally we like to know our message did not
go through, but now it goes back to all the list and a number of folks get
irritated. The machine did not give us much information
on why it didn't go through, but it seems there was routing error
(probably on their end).  

 ARCO SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIX IT, BUT THEIR POSTMASTER HAD NOT RESPONDED
TO A NICE MESSAGE I LEFT HIM ON SATURDAY.  Perhaps until they do Norm
can remove the person from the Paleolist, even though it is not the
fault of his machine. 

I am sending a copy of this note to the postmaster and hope they do
something about the messages bouncing back to the list. 



> 
> 
> PLANO.PALEONE4     DISTRIBUTION STATUS INFORMATION      01/28/96 09:14:
> 0
> =======================================================================
> 
> DISTRIBUTION ID: PLANO.PALEONE4.5537
> SUBJECT        : DISTRIBUTION STATUS
> DATE  SENT     : 01/28/96        TIME SENT: 09:14:00
> =======================================================================
> 
> YOUR MAIL WAS NOT DELIVERED FOR THE FOLLOWING REASON:
> 
> SNADS STATUS  : 0201
> EXPLANATION   : ROUTING ERROR
> 
> =======================================================================
> 
> RECIPIENT      : MACMS.MACMS_M
> LAST NAME      : MAC Gateway - AOGC/AEPT
> FIRST NAME     :
> MIDDLE INITIAL :
> NATIVE NAME    :
> COUNTRY        :
> ADMD           :
> PRMD           :
> ORGANIZATION   : AEPT
> ORG UNIT 1     : Scientific Computing
> ORG UNIT 2     :
> ORG UNIT 3     :
> ORG UNIT 4     :
> DDA            :
> 
> 
> 

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James F. Mahaffy                   e-mail: mahaffy@dordt.edu
Biology Department                 phone: 712 722-6279
Dordt College                      FAX 712 722-1198
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