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In article <6661@alice.uUCp>, mvs@alice.UUCP writes:
>I'm experiencing some problems with the UNIX* electronic
>mail system.  I hope somebody on the net can help me!
>Some mail items that I send seem to get corrupted in
>very strange ways.  Often many lines of what appears
>to be debugging or logging information find their
>way to the beginning of my mail item!  I'm pretty sure
>that this isn't happening on my machine.  Example:
>
>	% mail alice!mvs
>	hello
>	.
>	% mail
>	1 messages
>	From alice!mvs Thu Feb 19 12:23:45 1987
>	hello
>
>	?dq
>	%
>
>If I send the same mail item to a friend at another site
>he receives something quite different!  Lines of the form
>
>	Received: by xxx.yyy.UUCP (4.12/4.7)
>		id AA12424; Mon, 16 Feb 87 14:09:06 est
>
>are often added.  I've omitted the names as to not embarass
>the people at that site (Hello Laura!).  Surely these should be
>written to a log file and NOT into my mail item!  Often the
>"From" line gets horribly mutilated.  '%' signs crop up, which
>suggests to me that someone is screwing up a printf somewhere.
>Some of the output looks like what happens when I printf bad
>pointers!  Occaisonally a greater-than-sign '>' is prepended
>to a line in the body of the message, and sometimes the top
>of the item gets completely scrunted, particalularly my chess games.
>Can anyone help me pinpoint the problem.  I wouldn't want to
>go screaming to the system administrator if it wasn't his fault!
>
>Also my mail sometimes goes on the road for a couple of days.
>I've sent mail to a friend down the corridor and judging from the
>baggage tags it has been holidaying at some other machines?  Where
>exactly is "seismo", it doesn't seem to be on my floor.  Who is
>"mc" and where is his vax?  Maybe it's down in the comp center?
>Aren't there maps of these things?
>
>Please post your answers for obvious reasons!
>
>_-_-_-_-Mark

The following is a pre-recorded message from Thomas G. Yoxon, II: 
I have received your message of Wed Feb 25 01:55:51 CST 1987 correctly.
I am currently out of town.  I will not be reading my mail until I get
back.  I will be back sometime on Thursday February 19.

This is the only message you will receive.