HAAR%RCSRLH%gmr.com@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (RLH) (09/15/86)
Is the mail server that allows remote access to the SIMTEL20 PD archives working? I sent two requests for the info files, one about 10 days ago and the second about a week ago. I have gotten nothing back - not even an "addressee unknown" error message. Since I didn't get a message saying that it was undeliverable, I assume my message got thru to ARCHIVE-REQUEST. My only suspicion is that the server was not able to correctly extract a return address for me since the chain of VAX/VMS mail to CSNET phone mail to ARPANET can produce some bizarre address syntax. Can anyone tell me what is going on? Bob Haar G.M. Research Labs HAAR.GMR.COM@CSNET-RELAY
mdapoz@watrose.UUCP (Mark Dapoz) (09/17/86)
[munch, munch, mun In article <3820@brl-smoke.ARPA> HAAR%RCSRLH%gmr.com@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA writes: >Is the mail server that allows remote access to the SIMTEL20 PD archives >working? > >I sent two requests for the info files, one about 10 days ago and the >second about a week ago. I have gotten nothing back - not even an >"addressee unknown" error message. Since I didn't get a message saying >that it was undeliverable, I assume my message got thru to ARCHIVE-REQUEST. > >My only suspicion is that the server was not able to correctly extract >a return address for me since the chain of VAX/VMS mail to CSNET phone >mail to ARPANET can produce some bizarre address syntax. > I've had the same problem over here. I was almost ready to give up on my request when a reply from it came through. The final turnaround time was OVER 10 days. I have yet to receive a reply from 3 other requests I sent in only hours after I sent my first request. Is the network really this slow????? The only advice I have is wait (thats what I'm still doing). Mark Dapoz
rda@epistemi.UUCP (Robert Dale) (09/20/86)
Like Bob Haar (article <3820@brl-smoke.ARPA>), I too sent a request for the
INFO files to the SIMTEL20 PD archives, and received nothing in response.
Any suggestions as to what happened and how to get around it would be
appreciated. Am I correct in suspecting that there will be a large number
of people who have experienced this problem? If there's a problem with
working out return addresses, then is it possible that most or all people
who request information from the UK will also have this problem?
--
Robert Dale University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science,
2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LW, Scotland.
UUCP: ...!ukc!cstvax!epistemi!rda
JANET: rda@uk.ac.ed.epistemiandrew@stc.co.uk (09/27/86)
In article <1165@epistemi.UUCP> rda@epistemi.UUCP (Robert Dale) writes: | | Like Bob Haar (article <3820@brl-smoke.ARPA>), I too sent a request for the | INFO files to the SIMTEL20 PD archives, and received nothing in response. | Any suggestions as to what happened and how to get around it would be | appreciated. Am I correct in suspecting that there will be a large number | of people who have experienced this problem? If there's a problem with | working out return addresses, then is it possible that most or all people | who request information from the UK will also have this problem? | | -- | | Robert Dale University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science, | 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LW, Scotland. | | UUCP: ...!ukc!cstvax!epistemi!rda | JANET: rda@uk.ac.ed.epistemi there is in fact a much simpler problem in archive access from europe, in that our mail to SIMTEL20 goes via seismo.css.gov. Rick has taken the (entierly reasonable in my view) attitude that archive access is an expensive business, and it costs him to forward such requests --- not on the trans-atlantic link --- it is 'well known' that we the recipients pay for that, but rather on the US internal links, and we are being caught by the error trap that he has set up for that. -- Regards, Andrew Macpherson. <andrew@tcom.stc.co.uk> {backbone}!ukc!stc!andrew