[comp.mail.misc] Broken Mailer of the Month Award

brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) (06/09/91)

This month's award goes to FARWEST.UUCP or its Fidonet neighbors, for
repetitively mailing dozens of copies of the following news article, at
roughly two-day intervals, for more than a month.

Indeed, this one takes the cake, since the address it's mailing to is
gatewayed into a USENET newsgroup and associated Internet mailing list
with readership on nearly every continent.  It even goes to Antarctica.

In the count of people annoyed alone, this one outdoes nearly all the
previous "broken mailer of the month" awards alone.

To top it off, mail sent to postmaster@farwest.fidonet.org and to
farwest!postmaster never gets there.

Ah, the wonders of computing.
	- Brian

 From ucsd!nosc!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ucbvax!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!nuchat!farwest!Uucp Sat Jun  8 18:39:19 PDT 1991
 Article: 557 of rec.radio.amateur.packet
 Path: ucsd!nosc!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ucbvax!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!nuchat!farwest!Uucp
 From: Robert.S..Radvanovsky.KC6ONL@farwest.FidoNet.Org (Robert S. Radvanovsky KC6ONL)
 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
 Subject: PACKET->Internet Gateway
 Message-ID: <676279232.0@farwest.FidoNet>
 Date: 6 Jun 91 05:39:35 GMT
 Sender: Uucp@farwest.FidoNet.Org
 Lines: 13
 
 Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services
 
 Don't know if the other message/article was posted here, so I'll request again.
 Does anyone know if a PACKET (either AX.25 and/or TCP/IP) gatewaye exists
 between PACKET radio and Internet?  If so, could someone please state where it 
 is located?  If not, why has this not been performed?  Additionally, what would
 be needed in getting set up?
 
 Robert S. Radvanovsky, KC6ONL
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