tim@unc.UUCP (11/08/83)
Well, if that was meant to be an apology for that gratuitous public insult, it is accepted. I have just looked through my mail backlog, and I find no letters from anyone at site ccieng2; in fact, that string appears nowhere in the entire file. The simple fact is that there ARE NO RELIABLE MAIL OR NEWS PATHS TO OR FROM UNC! This summer was particularly bad; much mail and news was completely dropped forever by duke and decvax. This fall has been better, but not that much. (I am not faulting our links -- they are overloaded.) Thus, I started seeing articles like "Hey, how come I haven't seen anything from Tim Maroney since Gene's poll branded him the biggest idiot on the net?" Well, I hadn't reduced the frequency of my submissions much, but very little news was coming in or going out through duke. In any case, here is how to reach me. Try mail first, through decvax and duke, e.g., decvax!duke!unc!tim. If there is no reply, try again after two weeks (or sooner if you're close). If there's still no reply, try one last time with mail. Then try posting an article to some group that you know I read, with subject line "To Tim Maroney, the scumbag". That is certain to make me read it if it gets here. In the article, explain what's happened and plead with me to get in touch with you with a reliable path. If that doesn't work, please don't burden the net with further articles. I'm afraid you'll have to give up, but this approach should work. Contrary to popular mythology, there is NO cornell-unc link. I don't know where people got that idea, but it is wrong. DO NOT send mail to cornell!unc!tim under any circumstances. Sometimes it finds its way here eventually, but I'm sure that sometimes it doesn't. Sorry to use the news for this, but I imagine that ccieng2!kfk was not the only one who was suffering under these delusions. By the way, if any other backbone sites want to call us, we'd love it, and it's the only way to be sure of getting all the articles from Pam, Bruce, Byron, and myself. ________________________________________________________ Tim Maroney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill duke!unc!tim (USENET), tim.unc@csnet-relay (ARPA)