Six month mail processing delay :-)

I just HAD to forward this message I received.  About a 9 months ago I
joined Adam Curry's "CyberSleaze" mailing list.  About a month later I
unsubscribed.  The messages continued to come and I tried unsubscribing 
several more times.

Finally I set up a filter rule to flush the message and sent some grumpy 
email to the postmaster of the site telling them to fix their software 
(this was about mid-June of 1994).

This morning, I got the following message.  Note the dates on it.

Nothing like taking one's time.  You'd begin to think the government was 
somehow involved.

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From MAILER-DAEMON@mtv.comSun Jan 29 16:25:27 1995
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 16:46:32 -0500
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@mtv.com>
To: hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu
Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1

The original message was received at Tue, 24 May 1994 09:49:16 -0500
from root@localhost

   ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
"|/home/server/catmail -f -L CYBER-SLEAZE"  (unrecoverable error)
    (expanded from: daemon)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 "|/home/server/catmail -f -L CYBER-SLEAZE"... unknown mailer error 1

   ----- Original message follows -----

  [ Part 2: "Included Message" ]

Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 08:54:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu>
To: cyber-sleaze@mtv.com

unsubscribe

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In article <Pine.ULT.3.91.950129162530.717E-100000@krypton.mankato.msus.edu>, you wrote:

> This morning, I got the following message.  Note the dates on it.
> 
> Nothing like taking one's time.  You'd begin to think the government was 
> somehow involved.
> 
> -----BEGIN INCLUDED MESSAGE-----
> 
> >From MAILER-DAEMON@mtv.comSun Jan 29 16:25:27 1995
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 16:46:32 -0500
             ^^^^^^^^^^^
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@mtv.com>
> To: hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu
> Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1
> 
> The original message was received at Tue, 24 May 1994 09:49:16 -0500
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^
> from root@localhost


Now THAT'S what I call LATENCY!


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