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.