gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett) (08/25/85)
This is the header of an article I sent out with "Distribution: ba" > Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP > Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP > Path: amdahl!gam > From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett) > Newsgroups: ba.wanted,net.music.classical,net.music > Subject: Where to find CDs; some rare (?) titles > Message-ID: <1933@amdahl.UUCP> > Date: 22 Aug 85 05:09:15 GMT > Date-Received: 22 Aug 85 05:09:15 GMT > Reply-To: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett) > Followup-To: ba.wanted > Distribution: ba > Organization: Blue Mouse Trailer Resort, Hellmouth, CA > Lines: 20 This is a header of a response article that someone in Boston posted in response: > Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP > Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP > Path: amdahl!hplabs!ucbvax!decwrl!chabot@miles.DEC (All God's chillun got guns) > From: chabot@miles.DEC (All God's chillun got guns) > Newsgroups: net.music.classical > Subject: Re: Where to find CDs; some rare (?) titles > Message-ID: <115@decwrl.UUCP> > Date: 23 Aug 85 16:39:12 GMT > Date-Received: 24 Aug 85 23:57:19 GMT > Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP > Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation > Lines: 25 -- Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs}!amdahl!gam
phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) (08/25/85)
It turns out in the article used as an example that the poster is
not actually on "USENET" but rather on a mailing list gatewayed
by decwrl. The machine she is using runs VMS, as do several hundred
other DEC machines which appear to be on USENET. (this is how our
good friend Ken Arndt communicates with us) It is obviously difficult
to maintain distribution and references (you forgot this one, Gordon)
through a mailing list.
However, this doesn't mean we can't ask decwrl to try to work on it...
How likely are they to fix it? Well, I hear DEC broke TCP/IP on the
latest release of Ultrix. TCP/IP is not supported. Need I say more?
--
Plan: To play as much volleyball as possible.
Phil Ngai (408) 749-5720
UUCP: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra}!amdcad!phil
ARPA: amdcad!phil@decwrl.ARPAreid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) (09/06/85)
The DEC ENET is worldwide, and it is all gatewayed through decwrl in Palo Alto. I claim it is completely meaningless to maintain "distributions" when messages are passed across an internetwork gateway like this. It's pointless to ask for a "fix" when in fact the problem is inherently unfixable. -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA