karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (09/22/88)
[Honest apologies for having to post this; there is literally no way to reach the person in question; I can't even tell where it is, physically, much less how to reach the person via, say, phone call. The problems of anonymous UUCP...] To Mr Hutchison of this site... You have taken a site name which was already in use. There is a machine inside AT&T, properly registered with that name. Your site's name will have to change in order to become involved in Usenet. When I tried to reply to you, it went via normal pathalias routing into AT&T, which bounced the note back at me due to there being no such user. The problem with your attempts to get news software from osu-cis are due to having used the wrong filenames; the news software and patch pieces are named with a varying component of digits, rather than letters, e.g., 2.11news.01.Z is correct, not 2.11news.aa.Z. [If someone knows what/where this new `Grumpy' is, and/or can locate Mr Hutchison, could you please relay this to him? Thanx...] --Karl