Quoting Andreas Goesele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> OK, I kind of understand, why I got this one: It came over the
> list. But I got a bunch of messages to root (and some privileged user)
> of sunbird.aimcomm.com which did not come over the list. How is this
> possible?

Because the body of the (single) email looks like this:

 Unusual System Events
 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 Feb  1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd[19110]: call connected
 Feb  1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd/check[19109]: uservd[535] is running
 Feb  1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd[19110]: call connected
 Feb  1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd/check[19109]: uservd[535] is running

 From root  Fri Feb  1 06:14:01 2002       <----------------------
 Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED])
         by .aimcomm.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id GAA19224
         for root; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 06:02:03 -0800
 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 06:02:03 -0800
 From: root <root>
etc. etc.

where I put spaces to prevent your email client from splitting
this quotation at the <----- line. AIUI something somewhere should
have put a > in front of that "From".

Cheers,

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