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Subject: Re: Strange Behavior
From: Daniel Liston <dliston @ sonny . org>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:03:11 -0600
To: George Booth <G . Booth @ usm . edu>
Cc: majordomo-Users @ greatcircle . com
References: <1045777426.3e554c12e110b@ocean.otr.usm.edu>
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It sounds more like somebody fat fingered an address than it does majordomo or
sendmail switching a letter with one so close to it from a keyboard perspective.
I have been using majordomo since 1.9(something before 3) in large and small
environments, and have never seen this.

Dan Liston

George Booth wrote:
> Something very strange happened the other day, and we're still trying to figure 
> it out. Apparently, an address on one of our listservs, with an @usm.edu 
> address, managed to come through (and bounce back to the owner) as @uxm.edu
> 
> Checking the list, the address is correct, but somehow between the email 
> hitting the list and being delivered to the recipients of the list, the 's' in 
> @usm.edu was translated into an 'x'. Has anyone ever encountered something of 
> this nature before? Our email team is looking into it from their end, but they 
> wanted me to find out if any other majordomo user has encountered this 
> particular (and weird) behavior before.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> George
> 
> 
> **********
> George Booth                        G.Booth@usm.edu
> Systems Analyst II                  ghbooth@ocean.st.usm.edu
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> 
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>                                 in illusion, truth...




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