[talk.bizarre] Please read this if you've sent me mail. Also slt@purdue

elisa@mmm.UUCP (01/30/87)

Sorry for the clutter if this does not concern you.

I have been trying repeatedly to send mail to the following people:

Harry E. Barnett
kim@amdahl
Tom Mann
rlgvax!dennis
lmi-angel!bob
nexus.dec.com!morgan
mecc!sewilco
i.cc.purdue.edu!slt

Maybe my mailer doesn't figure out paths properly or something.
Anyway, if you'd like to receive the (now a little old) messages I have
been trying to send you, please send me a good pathname from ihnp4
to you, preferrably a pathname that avoids the machine "topaz."


-- 
Elisa Collins  3M  St. Paul, MN  ...!ihnp4!mmm!elisa
HASA - "A" division     Not the opinions of 3M

hedrick@topaz.UUCP (01/31/87)

> ... preferrably a pathname that avoids the machine "topaz."

I should hope so.  topaz used to be a fairly major relay machine.  It
is not any more.  It doesn't even have the capability to do UUCP over
modems.  Rutgers University is now routing all UUCP traffic, including
that to and fron topaz, via a Sun called "rutgers".  We found that
large-scale UUCP work doesn't go well with a timesharing machine.
There were too many situations when the machine would be eaten by UUCP
and news.  "rutgers" is now playing the role that topaz used to play.
Any UUCP traffic that is routed via topaz will come in via rutgers, go
to topaz, and then go back out via rutgers.  Assuming that rutgers
doesn't figure out what is going on and reroute it, which is likely.