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4 Mail Don’t Talk to Me, I’m Not a Typewriter! Not having sendmail is like not having VD. —Ron Heiby Former moderator, comp.newprod Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 21:40:13 -0800 From: Alan Borning borning@cs.washington.edu To: UNIX-HATERS Subject: Deferred: Not a typewriter When I try to send mail to someone on a Unix system that is down (not an uncommon occurrence), sometimes the mailer gives a totally incomprehensible error indication, viz.: Mail Queue (1 request) --QID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- --------Sender/Recipient-------- AA12729 166 Thu Mar 26 15:43 borning (Deferred: Not a typewriter) bnfb@csr.uvic.ca What on earth does this mean? Of course a Unix system isn’t a type- writer! If it were, it would be up more often (with a minor loss in functionality).
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