telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (05/04/89)
And this is one of those days. Two things going on which do not bode well, but both will probably get cured eventually, and one probably already has been cured. This week, the site used to prepare and mail [TELECOM Digest] is switching machines. In the past we were on a machine called 'gamma' at eecs.nwu.edu. That machine is being removed from service, and I am now on a similar machine called 'delta'. This is transparent to you, the reader, since all mail merely comes to eecs.nwu.edu anyway. Pointers were, until yesterday, pointing at gamma, which in turn might send mail to 'alpha' or other places at Northwestern. During the change over Wednesday, it is possible some mail did not reach me. I say this because the mailbox was suspiciously devoid of new mail, and I found some new mail left behind at gamma. If you sent mail Tuesday or Wednesday and wound up getting it bounced back then I suggest you resend it to me. Our address is still 'telecom@eecs.nwu.edu' but there may have been some funny business Wednesday. For next: Since last week, copies of the Digest have not been making it through to the Usenet gateway for some reason. Some issues have been retransmitted three times, and are still being gobbled up in a black hole of some sort between here and chip@vector. My own control copies of the Digest are only sporadically making it through to my mailbox at chinet, a mere five miles away from Northwestern! Once I am able to re-establish contact with chip then our Usenet readers will again be getting the Digest. Since much of the correspondence from day to day in the Digest comes from Usenet readers, and they mostly haven't gotten anything for several days now, that explains why the mail is skimpy today. That's life in the big city, I guess! Patrick Townson See you tomorrow!