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From: Mark Lawrence
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1990 16:15

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A subscriber to a mailing list I maintain recently sent me the following
from his system log.  I am intrigued because I've also seen the same kind
of error message pop up in my logs when receiving e-mail from a certain
machine from within Boeing Computer Services.  Anybody seen messages of
this sort?

-- included text
14:19:05 sendmail: Unparseable user root wants to be <drd!DRD.Com!framer>
14:19:22 sendmail: AA02872: message-id=<8910261757.AA01178@DRD.Com>
14:19:22 sendmail: AA02872: from=root, size=730, class=0
14:19:26 sendmail: AA02872: to=operator,root, delay=00:00:24, stat=Sent
-- end included text
-- 
 mark@DRD.Com {uunet,rutgers}!drd!mark (918)743-3013
 Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu

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From: mark@DRD.Com (Mark Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Unparseable user root wants to be ...
Keywords: sendmail error
Message-ID: <1990Jan2.161527.2098@DRD.Com>
Date: 2 Jan 90 16:15:27 GMT
Reply-To: mark@drd.Com (Mark Lawrence)
Organization: DRD Corporation, Tulsa, OK
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