telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (07/01/90)
Due to a temporary problem with the Usenet gateway machine here at Northwestern, the comp.dcom.telecom messages are being re-routed via another account at cs.bu.edu. When I found that messages were not leaving here and being accepted and re-distributed by accuvax (the news machine at nwu), I took over thirty messages (three issues of the Digest) to my account at cs.bu.edu to send them out. Then the fun began: Although Pnews at cs.bu did accept the messages, an old .signature file had been forgotten about, and it reared its ugly head at the bottom of each message in issue 460, which explains the odd additions the Usenet people saw on those messages. But that is not all: Since some of the messages had been sitting in the queue here, waiting for accuvax to accept them for a couple days, a few places on the net have received no comp.dcom.telecom messages for three or four days. Now I suppose they are getting flooded with them from the backlog. Of course when no messages go out, I get no messages in return, which explains the skimpy issue you are reading now. Just the kind of trouble I need two days before leaving town! Please remember telecom will be off-line through July 8. Please HOLD new messages until next weekend before sending them in. Thanks. Patrick Townson