grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich) (04/18/86)
> Please add me to the INFO-C Mailing list. ...
Why do requests like this regularly get into USENET? I guess I don't
understand how ARPANET, etc administer their routing.
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George Tomasevich, ihnp4!twitch!grt
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
fair@styx.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) (04/22/86)
The ARPA Internet has a convention for mailing lists that goes like this: for each mailing list address (ListAddr) there should be an administrative address (ListAddr-request) which only the list administrator/moderator reads. So for Human-Nets@Red.Rutgers.Edu there exists Human-Nets-Request@Red.Rutgers.Edu Unfortunately, although this convention is largely followed by mailing list administrators, most host administrators don't bother to tell their users about this. In this sense, the ARPA Internet is much like the USENET: it depends upon the host administrators to educate their users in the proper and effective use of the network. Erik E. Fair styx!fair fair@lll-tis-b.arpa