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Subject: Re: This month's winner: least helpful bounce message.
From: Lone Deranger <memory @ blank . org>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 01:59:27 -0400
To: Raven <raven @ Tribe . OnlineToday . com>
Cc: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <1.5.4.32.19980621000452.00710774@tribe.onlinetoday.com>; from Raven on Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 07:04:52PM -0500
References: <1.5.4.32.19980621000452.00710774@tribe.onlinetoday.com>

In the immortal words of Raven (raven@Tribe.OnlineToday.com):
> Ooooooo...glad to see I am not the only one stuck in hell. :0)  You have
> been the wonderful winner of a message squeezed through a Banyan Vines mail
> system.  I recognized that nightmarish syntax the moment I saw it.

Vines.  VINES?!  It still _exists_?!  Wow, how very 1988... :)

> Inside their local net they can use the format username@group@server and
> Banyan systems understand it, they then have to squeeze it through an SMTP
> gateway (that is what Incognito is, the couple of places I am aware of
> running Banyan networks use it).  The braindead thing is supposed to replace
> the extra "@" and any spaces (another part of the internal nightmare is that
> you can use spaces in user IDs in Banyan Vines) with something more
> innocuous, but somebody seems to have screwed their site up big time.  Lemme
> know if you want to shudder in horror together sometime.  *cold shiver*

Jeeze, and I thought Lotus Nots was baroque...

-n

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