the server is hallucinating

[Alice Faber]

Mark A Mandel wrote:
>Not only is the server re-sending old messages, it thinks it's
>re-receiving them. I've just gotten two messages from it beginning so:
>
>         >>>
>
>Subject: Rejected posting to ADS-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>
>Your message is being returned to you unprocessed because it appears to
>have already been distributed to the ADS-L list.
>
>         <<<
>
>I sent the original messages on 3/5 and 3/7. Under "full headers" view,
>here is the piece of the transmission sequence for the 3/5 one that
>shows the gap. The linewrapping is changed here from the original, and
>I've inserted a blank line to keep the "paragraphs" from being joined.
>
>         >>>
>
>Received: (from root at localhost) by quartz.und.nodak.edu
>(8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g2CCkmv02569; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:46:48 -0600
>(CST)
>
>Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com ([209.119.0.109]) by
>umail.und.nodak.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 umail Dec 7 2001
>09:58:59)  with ESMTP id GSJ72E00.A19 for
><xiaozhao_huang at UND.NODAK.EDU>; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:01:26 -0600
>
>         <<<
>
>Can the listadmin figure out where the delusion lies?

I believe UND.NODAK.EDU is broken. The same host has shown up in
repeats from Linguist List as well. I'm tempted to forward every last
one of them to postmaster at nodak.edu.
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