Re: Linus' email account is full. - Fwd: Mail System Error - Returned Mail

[David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>]

H. Peter Anvin writes:
 > Followup to:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020208201734.038322c0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk>
 > By author:    Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
 > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
 > >
 > > Linus' email account appears to be full if we can believe this returned email:
 > > 
 > > >Envelope-to: aia21@cus.cam.ac.uk
 > > >To: aia21@cam.ac.uk
 > > >From: Mail Administrator <Postmaster@transmet.com>
 > > >Reply-To: Mail Administrator <Postmaster@transmet.com>
 >                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > > >Subject: Mail System Error - Returned Mail
 > > >Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:14:23 -0500
 > > >
 > 
 > You sent it to the wrong address, and apparently someone is being a
 > "scalper" and trying to capture peoples misaddressed email.
 > 
 > This is getting to be a very painful problems for a lot of
 > organizations.
 > 
 > 	-hpa

Actually, I suspect the situation is somewhat simpler.  It is possible
transmet.com may only have one mailbox that everything funnels into.
Their mail is hosted by "registeredsite.com", which has a somewhat
invalid web presence (IP address = 10.0.0.1).

>From transmet.com's web site, the company appears to be manufacturer
of metal flakes, and does not appear to have a particularly large web
presence.

--David