SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (07/29/87)
If service is reliable, I could receive info-apple from a bitnet LISTSERV instead of from arpanet. However, looking at my net typology, I'm not so sure that's efficient. If I understand how Mailer works, it only sends one copy (along with a distribution list) of each message through the gateway. So wiscvm.bitnet would send one to the LISTSERV at NSDUVM1 which would then make up a new copy of the message and its distribution list and shoot if back through wiscvm.bitnet to (among lots of other places on bitnet) LISTSERV@MARIST.bitnet (which is reached by going THROUGH UCONNVM.bitnet. If I subscribe from MARIST (which is the nearest LISTSERV, then LISTSERV@MARIST makes up a copy with its (New England?) distribution list and sends that BACK to UCONNVM (where a copy could be picked off and sent to my reader). Hmmm.... is that really more efficient than getting a copy from arpanet? Or would the most efficient LISTSERV from where I sit on the network be the one at NDSUVM1? AND do I subscribe to INFO-APPLE (that's 10 characters and IBM doesn't like file names longer than 8 so it must be reduced to something like INFO-APP ??) Please DON'T dump me from the arpa feed until I'm getting satisfactory service from a bitnet server (if that's what I should do). BY THE WAY! I have asked a "contact" person at a LISTSERV on bitnet if he could find a couple of megs to host Apple II files. He said as soon as he's back from vacation (didn't say when that was) he'd look into it -- hope anyway.