6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (11/04/89)
As of the time and date of this posting, all current subscribers have been sent issue #0, which describes goals and policies of the journal and includes submission guidelines. I imgaine the news propogation is significantly slower than mail propogation, so I make the following possibly unsafe assertion: if you have not by now received your copy of Macker #0, it means the mailing to your address bounced out of our mailer. This could have happened for a number of reasons. 1) you didn't include a mailing address in your message body and I had to try to make one up out of the mess that some mailer made for a return address. I am not a mail addressing expert; I did not succeed in some cases. Sorry. :-( 2) your site was for some reason unreachable from the routing you gave me. This was true for a certain number of non-US sites and for a smaller number of US sites. This is not necessarily anyone's fault -- it's just that some of the addresses didn't work. 3) your site was offline for a number of days (this happened in one case; somebody getting a uucp feed from Harvard, I believe, and a Harvard machine rejected the mail because it was offline) and our mailer gave up on it. You can remedy this situation by doing a little research with your local guru on how to get mail from me to you. Obviously, some mail got to me via some route but couldn't be sent back; in some cases this was because the route wasn't bi-directional or I couldn't make it be bi-directional. In any case, if you would like to re-submit a subscription order, I suggest you research the addressing routes from MY site TO your site instead of the other way around. :-) For the record, Macker is an online Macintosh programming journal which is free to anyone I can reach via electronic mail of any sort on InterNet or BitNet (incl. CompuServe, AppleLink, MCI Mail et. al.). If you would like to subscribe, send mail to the address below with your email address in the body of the mail flush left on a line by itself. -- Pete Gontier : pete@cavevax.ucsb.edu; outgoing .UUCP addresses bounce Editor, Macker : Online Macintosh Programming Journal; mail for subscription Hire this kid : Mac, DOS, C, Pascal, asm, excellent communication skills Underground : Internet BBS via rlogin 128.11.41.100 -l bbs