On Fri, 21 Apr 1995 14:04:30, Diane Taber-Markiewicz <ROHRINKH@SNYBUFAA> wrote: >Anybody got ideas on this one? For several days mail to a subscriber of ICWP-L >has been bouncing for the reason: no such user SLNG2 at node SLEEPY or >no such user at node GRUMPY and several of the other seven small people. >The user is for real and has been receiving mail for months on the list, but >the nodes are fictional and vary with each bounce. > Have any of you had any similar bounces? No, but I have a reasonable explanation. Sites often link several DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) machines into a "cluster". Often, machines in a cluster have "related" names, e.g., Winken, Blinken, and Nod. Sometimes, administrators of that cluster apply some "electronic-paint" to the cluster to change the "external" name of the cluster to a name which matches none of the occupants. For example, the rest-of-the-world would see the label 'DWARF-RESIDENCE', and only the users "inside" the cluster would see the individual names. I would say that the ID 'SLNG2' is no longer valid on *any* of the machines in the cluster. He's gone, deceased, has ceased-to-be, he's pushing up daisies, he is an ex-parrot. However, he could be just resting. :-)