i don't know if all thats true, but on the a-train tonight i was just
sitting there eating crackers and there's this lady kittycorner across
the aisle going on about how oj simpson will fry in hell for his sins and
so on and guess who gets on the train and sits next to me? oj himself.
and its like the lady and nobody else recognixed him except me, and he
caught the tail end of the lady's rant and i saw a tear in his eye. then
oj grabs my hand like it was natural thing for him to do. but i still had
some crackers in that hand and they got crushed which kinda ticked me off
but i tried to be gracious about it, oj bein in such apparent pain and
all, but he wouldn't let go even with the cracker crumbs all over the
place. i thought he was supposed to be jail or sumthin.
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 94 23:18 EET
From: MAILER-DAEMON@kudu.ru.ac.za
Reply-To: el@lisse.na
To: Mark Thomas
Subject: Mail to gate@wb7tpy.az.usa.na
You recently sent mail to gate@wb7tpy.az.usa.na.
This was routed to the system "kudu.ru.ac.za" at Rhodes University in
Grahamstown, South Africa, which handles the uucp dialup email gateway
to Namibia. However, "kudu.ru.ac.za" has no record of the host in
question. If you think that this host really does exist, and is a
machine in Namibia, could you please send mail to the administrator of
the ".NA" domain, Dr Eberhard Lisse (el@lisse.na) in order to update
the domain name server entries and routing tables.
However, the usual reason for such erroneous addressing is the use of
packet-radio addresses across the Internet. Packet radio users have
decided to use NA (the ISO-3166 code for Namibia) for North America.
This incurs great expense, as the mail travels half-way around the
planet, over expensive and over-crowded links that are paid for by
comparatively poor people in semi-developed countries. If this is the
case, please make a _large_ mental nore never to do this again, and
tell all your friends not to as well. Packet radio addresses are _not_
Internet addresses, even if they look the same. You may wish to try
routing your mail via "gate.ampr.org" (eg: user%site.na@gate.ampr.org).
Do _not_ send packet-radio addressing queries to me, as I do not know
anything about this network, other than the headaches that it causes
for me.
There also appear to be problems with some computer systems in the
".mil" domain (and elsehere), which truncate perfectly valid addresses
such as "user@some.where.navy.mil" or "user@some.where.nasa.gov" to
become "user@some.where.na", which doesn't help anyone. It's not clear
what can be done to resolve this particular glitch other than to
complain to the mail administrator of the system that is truncating the
address.
Another problem that occurs less frequently is mis-spelling addresses
for sites in New Zealand (.NZ) due to the proximity of "a" and "z" on a
standard keyboard. If this is the problem, you will have to re-send
the mail to the relevant site, with the correct address. A similar
problem occurs when people decipher what must be handwritten email
addresses and get mixed up with ".NO" (Norway) and ".UA" (Ukraine).
To help you isolate the problem, the mail headers from your message
appear below, sans the body, to save some bandwidth. If you have
further queries, please direct them to me, el@lisse.na. This message
was generated automatically, so please do not feel that you absolutely
_have_ to reply with a "mea culpa" message.
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