Date   : Wed, 15 Dec 1982 04:27:00-EST
From   : Jerry E Pournelle <POURNE@Mit-Mc>
Subject: somebody gotta DO something

       It is another Night of the long knives; about fifty
messages from mailer daemons and memo services and the like
telling me that messages sent to various lists (mostly info-cpm)
didn't get to recipients I never heard of.
       There must be a way to direct such mail to the list
maintainer, or to a file that people could read if they want to
see who on a list doesn't get their mail.  This thing at 300
baud takes about half an hour to get rid of; because it has
included headers, and GZ tells me there is no way for my magic
header remover she wrote to scrub out included vias and
remaileds and so forth; thus it fills the flinking screen EACH
time and will not accept a "d" command until it has filled the
screen; leaving one screeching in rage and wondering about the
"convenience" of electronic mail.
       Surely there is a solution to this problem?  And alas, I
will now get back about five copies of T HIS message, filling
disk space (some of the messages fail because people have
exceeded their disk quota, so the mailer exceeds mine with dead
mail?)

ah well.  What cannot be cured, and all that, but really, isn't
someone out there smart?

jep