Received from DECWRL Early One Morning
Received from DECWRL Early One Day A major disk crash occurred on the DECWRL gateway on November 5, 1990. In the recovery process, we found evidence that you had sent or should have received one of the messages that was lost. If the message identified below is important, you should send it again, or arrange for it to be sent again. The ULTRIX mail software stores the contents of a message in a different place from the headers of the message. The information that was destroyed in the disk crash was the table matching message bodies to message headers. So we still have all of the mail, but we have no idea where to send any of it. If the contents of the missing message were vital and would otherwise be lost, we can manually rummage through the recovered message bodies to find your data if you can give us a description of it. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. Naturally, the disk crashed while holding the largest backlog in the history of our gateway. We suspect that the large backlog was caused by intermittent soft errors in that disk before it finally failed. Paul Vixie Brian Reid