noel@cubsvax.UUCP (12/27/83)
Since
Our primary uucp path to the outside world was severed about one
month ago when harpo stopped polling rocky2 without prior warning.
Please note new paths to cubsvax:
philabs!cubsvax, harpo!cucard!cubsvax, cmcl2!rocky2!cubsvax
Thanks, Noel
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-- Noel Kropf {philabs,cmcl2!rocky2}!cubsvax!noel 212-280-5517
-- 1002 Fairchild; Columbia University; New York NY 10027ber@gummo.UUCP (12/28/83)
#R:cubsvax:-12800:gummo:46600002:000:872 gummo!ber Dec 28 11:05:00 1983 I sometimes act on behalf of harpo in a public relations capacity. Harpo has NEVER stopped polling any site without their approval. When ones' primary link gets severed, one ought to contact them to look into it. Harpo gets very bummed when people cast aspersions upon it. Upon reading noel's remarks (tsk tsk noel) harpo instructed me to find the problem. I confirmed that rocky2 was indeed being called nightly. I confirmed that no connection had been established recently. I confirmed that the number in harpo's database was acurate by hand dialing. I checked the low speed ACU (harpo has one 300 baud and 15 1200 baud ACUs at its disposal) and found the high speed button was pressed in. Voila! It took five minutes and could have been done a month ago had I known. Morala: If you get cut off, tell the appropriate administrator so it can be made official
dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) (12/31/83)
I second the comments about reporting or investigating the failure of a connection rather than just complaining about it. About 2 months ago, I noticed purely by accident that files had been sitting around for about 4 or 5 days waiting to be delivered to a machine that watcgl polls. A bit of investigation showed that the phone line to our one-and-only dialer was completely dead; reporting it to Bell Canada got it fixed the next day. Since most of our uucp connections are bidirectional, traffic was still getting out to most places we talk with simply from them calling us to deliver mail. The problem could have gone for several weeks before I noticed it, and no one had reported anything wrong to me. There are all sorts of things that can cause a uucp connection to be lost. Please spend some of your own time trying to track down a problem or notify the appropriate problem before complaining about it in public. It's time more usefully spent.