FJW@mit-mc.arpa (02/11/83)
From: Frank J. Wancho <FJW@mit-mc.arpa> It was not bugs in the MC mailer that were causing it to be clogged. After the first TCP changeover on Jan 1, we found were were getting many rejections at BRL from hosts that could not yet speak TCP. At about that same time, we found that MC was able to speak both the old (NCP) and new TCP and moved some of the list temporarily back to MC. However, on Feb 1, the second changeover to TCP only occurred and many sites were dropped off the net because they do not speak TCP. Unfortunately, it did not occur to either Keith or myself that we should have removed those temporary additions at that time. What then happened was that this caused a large backup of legitimate queued mail at MC of which INFO-MICRO and INFO-CPM were a large portion. ITS has a primitive file system in some respects, so indeed things did get clogged to the point where the mailer almost stopped working at all. So, earlier this week, CSTACY took it upon himself to spend many many hours clearing out the backlog. In the process, he blocked the local redistribution of both INFO-CPM and INFO-MICRO, which included our temporary sublists - and it was those sublists that were the main cause of the problems on MC. Naturally, he could not have been able to clear the backlog with new mail coming in. So, I hope that this clears up any misimpressions which may have been caused by Keith's previous message. Meanwhile, we are still unable to send to certain sites from BRL, and this, coupled with problems related to the above discussion, I will have both mailing lists temporarily shutdown until my own host is up and checked out for handling mailing lists. That should be early next month if all goes as planned. Please bear with us and accept my apologies to all concerned for any inconveniences and misunderstandings. Thanks, Frank
SPACERAD@JPL-VLSI.ARPA (05/23/84)
From: Keith Martin <SPACERAD@JPL-VLSI.ARPA> The "To:" line says "MCCLUSKEY,JEFF,JEFF", and not for all messages. Some of them just say JEFF and I only get one of those. (????) Hope you can figure it out. Jeff Skaletsky ------