alan@ipse4.cs.man.ac.uk (Alan Wills) (07/20/90)
MANCHESTER SMALLTALK GOODIES LIB --- HARDWARE PROBLEMS You may have experienced some delay in getting a response from goodies-lib@cs.man.ac.uk, the automatic server for the Manchester Smalltalk Goodies Library. The delays are chiefly due to an elusive hardware fault which recurrently pretends to have gone away, and then creeps out while we're not looking and wipes all the discs. Sod's law ==> it would have to happen just when we announce the service! The engineers are proceeding through their repertoire of board-changes. However, you should nevertheless get some response from the server in due course, even if it is a little late. Normally, you should get a response by return email. A few people haven't been able to get a response at all, because of routing bugs. The server replies to your From: address, unless there is a Reply-to: line. In a few cases (particularly in jp), network servers along the way don't seem to get the path right. If you've had no response at all and know of a good path, use the Reply-to: line in your message. If you continue to get no reply, mail me. For those who didn't see the original announcement and don't know what this is all about: Manchester Smalltalk Goodies Library is a repository of public-domain Smalltalk file-ins, containing software from a wide variety of contributors. The library is accessible by mailing to an automatic server. You too can contribute your goodies to the library. Your first message to the goodies-lib should take the form: To: goodies-lib@cs.man.ac.uk Subject: help; index (and maybe something like Reply-to: <@fhz.ru:25G%x!y!z@zoo.ru> if you get no reponse and think you know the route from us back to you.) A message body is superfluous. This will get you all the info you need on using the goodies-lib, together with an index of the current items in it. Index updates will be published monthly in comp.lang.smalltalk. Alan Wills University of Manchester, UK -- Alan Wills University of Manchester, UK +44-61-275 6135