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June 19, 2001


best bounce yet
Posted in :: Pondering ::

In these days of lay-offs I get a lot of mail bounces.


They usually look like this (address changed to protect the innocent)


Your message

did not reach the following recipient(s):


c=US;a= ;p=Breakaway; o=NYDataCenter;dda:SMTP=blurp@blurp.com; on Tue,

19 Jun 2001 17:55:17 -0400

The recipient name is not recognized

The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=US;a=

;p=Breakaway;l=EXGATE-NY0106192155M8FTW93F

MSEXCH:IMS:Breakaway:NYDataCenter:EXGATE-NY 0 (000C05A6) Unknown

Recipient


This is the first one I've ever seen in English.

Hello,


Thank you for your message addressed to an Organic, Inc. address. The addressee is no longer working with Organic. Your message is being returned to you unopened and unread. We encourage you to reroute your message to another Organic employee.


http://www.organic.com/


No traceroute nonesense, no extraneous machine code...

Posted at 03:01 PM, June 19, 2001
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