ehrlich@colossus.cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) (02/26/91)
Just a reminder for everyone. Effective this Friday, 1 March 1991, PSUVAX1 WILL NO LONGER GATEWAY MAIL for entities outside the Eberley College of Science of The Pennsylvania State University. Below is the original message that was sent on 6 Feb 1991 announcing the gateway termination. -- Dan Ehrlich > By now I am sure many of you have noticed the following being inserted into > mail messages by PSUVAX1: > > X-Notice: Effective 1 March 1991 the host PSUVAX1.CS.PSU.EDU > will NO LONGER GATEWAY MAIL for entities outside > of the College of Science of The Pennsylvania State > University. Comments and questions should be addressed > to postmaster@cs.psu.edu. > > This means exactly what it says. After 1 March 1991 mail that does not > originate from or is destined to a machine within the College of > Science will be rejected and returned to the sender. I would like to > offer the following suggestions to make life easier for all: > > 1) Modify you mailer configuration so that PSUVAX1 is not the > host you punt to when you can not figure out how to deliver > something. For sendmail this would be the sendmail.cf file. > > 2) Mail to BITNET hosts should be sent to PSUVM.PSU.EDU. The To: > address should be of the form: > > JoeUser%NODENAME.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU > > Make sure that '.BITNET' appears after the node name. The > CAC has assured me that their mailer 'will do the right > thing' with these addresses. > > 3) If you are a BITNET node using PSUVAX1 as an INTERNET gateway > please start sending the mail to INTERBIT instead. This is > the 'official' Internet-BITNET gateway. > > We are still trying to locate a site that will be willing to act as a > UUCP gateway. To date we have not been able to locate one. If one can > not be located I will try to make the case that we should continue for > a while longer gatewaying between UUCP and the INTERNET. > > As always I will attempt to help any of you with any questions you > might have. Please send e-mail or call me. > > -- Dan Ehrlich -- Dan Ehrlich - Sr. Systems Programmer - Penn State Computer Science <ehrlich@cs.psu.edu>/Voice: +1 814 863 1142/FAX: +1 814 865 3176