Got this error message, and figured it might
be of interest to the population :-)

Blaine Thompson
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>Date: 19 Feb 1998 20:40:48 -0800
>From: Bill Walton <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Retirement of VAX mail gateway machine
>
>This is an automated message from National Semiconductor regarding certain
>changes in our internal email facilities.
>
>According to our message-routing logs, you have recently sent mail to someone
>at National Semiconductor using an address that forces the message to route
>through a particular machine which is soon to be retired.  Addresses which
>specify the host "gpo.nsc.com" in any form (e.g. [log in to unmask])
>will not work after the retirement, scheduled for March 1, 1998.
>
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>Regards,
>
>Bill Walton
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