rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (10/21/87)
Two folks write: >My mail through seismo gets bounced, and I'm using hard paths... >Regarding the demise of seismo, send mail to uunet!rick, and he >will give you the status. (I am not trying to flood Rick with mail, >... Seismo has been dead for quite some time -- there were large announcements made several weeks ago, and seismo itself has been marked as out of commission as a mail server for over six weeks. Look at the current maps, or better you update your mail software: unless you really know what you're doing (and if you don't know about seismo's departure, then you don't), having to use "hard paths" is a mistake. /r$ -- For comp.sources.unix stuff, mail to sources@uunet.uu.net.
scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller) (10/23/87)
In article <214@papaya.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: >Look at the current maps, or better you update your mail software: unless >you really know what you're doing (and if you don't know about seismo's >departure, then you don't), having to use "hard paths" is a mistake. > /r$ Well, speaking as someone who was still fairly recently a net.novice, I can say that using "hard paths" may be a mistake, but it's often about the only way to get anything done. For instance, on any netnews site that doesn't talk Internet addressing (any non-smail site, just about), the first thing that you are presented with on replying is a hard path. Being a mere mortal user at the time, I could hardly presume to tell the sysadmin to do this or that, and so I learned to do mail via explicit paths. How did I do it? Well, I learned a relatively small number of long-distance links, and then routed things over those links. What I'm trying to point out is, on the typical "news is a hobby" Usenet system, routing across explicit paths may be the only means available. The question wrt seismo's status is a legitimate one; not all users read news.*, and not all administrators extract the important stuff and notify their users... ...and another consideration is that many, many people still have lines like seismo!foovax!me in their .signatures... \scott -- Scott Hazen Mueller ( near_me ? lll-crg!csustan!helium : uunet )!zorch!scott (209) 527-1203