attnews@ihnp4.att.com (Harold Jackson) (06/03/88)
Many of you know ihnp4 as one of the best connected machines on the UUCP network. Because it is so well connected, well run, and has smart routing software, many people have chosen to send much of their electronic mail through ihnp4. This use of ihnp4 as a free mail forwarder has reached the point where it is being unfairly overloaded. This overload has to be rectified. Management has decided to discontinue passing third party email through AT&T machines. We will allow time for people time to find other paths. There are many commercial mail services that will be happy to take on your load. We recommend AT&T Mail, who can be reached at 800-MAIL-672. This cutoff applies to ihnp4, cbosgd, and att. It will probably affect other AT&T machines within a year. IF YOU LIST IHNP4, CBOSGD, OR ATT AS SMART-HOST, OR IN YOUR /USR/LIB/NEWS/PATHS FILE, YOU SHOULD CHANGE IT *NOW* TO SOME OTHER MACHINE. While we are phasing out third party pass-through as much as possible, we will continue to accept email for AT&T machines, and to pass outgoing email from AT&T to other systems. cbosgd and ihnp4 will go away soon anyway, as they are being replaced by official gateways. Beginning July 1, 1988, all external links to cbosgd and ihnp4 will be severed. If you have a connection to ihnp4 or cbosgd, or there is a business need to talk to AT&T, you can contact att!postmaster about setting up a link to att. Such a link would not allow pass-through email. Effective September 1, 1988, pass-through email will be returned to the sender. We may install software to generate warnings before then, so people won't suddenly be surprised. We will update the UUCP map immediately.
lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) (06/11/88)
[ Note: Followups to news.admin ] In article <1316@cblpf.ATT.COM> attnews@ihnp4.att.com (Harold Jackson) writes: >Effective September 1, 1988, pass-through email will be returned to the >sender. We may install software to generate warnings before then, so >people won't suddenly be surprised. We will update the UUCP map >immediately. Will the AT&T sites also be dropping off the USENET backbone? If the AT&T sites continue to propogate news internally, and pass those articles in and out via the few remaining gateways, there's going to be a hell of a lot of mail bouncing at the gateways when someone tries to reply to a news article, and their news software uses the Path: to generate the return address. I agree that these sites should smarten up their mailers, however we're still living and working in the "real world" ... (sigh) The only solution I can see to this bouncing mail problem is for AT&T to drop off the backbone. [ Nice paragraph formatting, eh? Maybe unbundling troff isn't all that much of a bad thing after all :-) ] -- {alberta,utzoo,uunet}!ncc!lyndon lyndon@Nexus.CA
blenko@PRC.Unisys.COM (Tom Blenko) (06/17/88)
In article <1316@cblpf.ATT.COM> attnews@ihnp4.att.com (Harold Jackson) writes: |Many of you know ihnp4 as one of the best connected machines on the |UUCP network. Because it is so well connected, well run, and has smart |routing software, many people have chosen to send much of their |electronic mail through ihnp4. This use of ihnp4 as a free mail |forwarder has reached the point where it is being unfairly overloaded. |This overload has to be rectified. Management has decided to |discontinue passing third party email through AT&T machines. We will |allow time for people time to find other paths. There are many |commercial mail services that will be happy to take on your load. We |recommend AT&T Mail, who can be reached at 800-MAIL-672. | Oh, and, by the way, don't forget to modify your own UUCP software so that messages originating in, or destined for, att sites are disposed of in a prompt and inexpensive fashion. Tom