SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET.UUCP (11/23/87)
Your message posted to info-apple on 15 November arrived here on bitnet today (23 Nov). I suspect that your attempt to send GET commands to APPLE2-L were held up on the arpa side as well. From the various mail I've received, there has been some "renovating" on arpanet (or milnet or both) that has caused file backlogs at various sites that are huge and may take weeks to work down to "normal." On our side, it appears that the loss of WISCVM's gateway between bitnet and other nets will be solved by a set of regional gateways. From here to there (bitnet --> arpa for instance) will be automatic (or so we're promised) in that our MAIL systems will know where the nearest gate is and use it. From you to bitnet is not nearly as clear yet. As nearly as I understand it, mail going directly from me to you will get the "From:" line recoded as it goes through the gateway so that you'll know the most efficient return route. Mail from me to brl.arpa will show the same gateway if the nearest gate to me is the nearest route from any arpanet site, but other readers of comp.sys.apple may not be able to figure out the nearest gate by reading indirect mail (sent through the newslist). I expect that if you send it to any gate to bitnet it'll get routed to me okay, but only time will tell about that. For some reason, as it is now our bitnet feed of comp.sys.apple (aka info-apple) comes direct from brl.arpa to NDSUVM1 and again a few days later from HUSC6 (that's at Harvard). The Harvard mailer apparently has become the bane of electronic mail postmasters everywhere -- I wouldn't be surprised to find it's the source of some significant fraction of the arpa backlog. Maybe the new internet regional gateways will solve the "multiple copies" problem but I suspect it more likely that we'll start getting 3 or 4 of everything instead of only 2. NOTE FOR MIKE KAO - since none of us on bitnet have ever seen an address to which we can "reply by email to insure receipt" you won't need instructions on how to get files from APPLE2-L as the server is a robot that's got even less of a chance at getting your correct address than us humans do (I'd appreciate it if several dozen of you out there in UUCP land would copy this paragraph and send it to Mike). pnet01 (heck even crash) is a node unknown to the gateway from bitnet to UUCP (indeed, I do know how to get mail to pnet01, but the point is that the LISTSERV@BROWNVM doesn't). --------------------- ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut