BRACKENRIDGE%USC-ISIB@sri-unix.UUCP (01/04/84)
From: Billy <BRACKENRIDGE@USC-ISIB> We have decided to attempt to move INFO-IBMPC to one of the Unix systems at ISI. As the INFO-IBMPC mailing list is very large and uses every form of legal and illegal mailing address, conversion may take a few weeks. In the mean time you may be receiving test messages from various ISI Unix hosts purporting to be INFO-IBMPC. Please just ignore those messages unless we ask for some sort of verification reply. We will not announce the move until we can support all the services we have had on Tops-20. This includes Anonymous login FTP, support for archives of messages and program library, Kermit, and robust SMTP mail service. We will not support direct UUCP mail or non IP gateways from ISI. It is in the long range plans of ISI and ARPA to move from large scale timesharing to a more distributed environment. While I would rather move to a small scale Tops-20 PDP-10 architecture with a distributed file system, such a beast does not exist so Unix appears to be the only choice. All of the editors of INFO-IBMPC are Unix novices and we would appreciate any help from Unix people who have experience with running mailing lists or with cross support between IBM-PCs and Unix systems. -------