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From: fitz@wang.UUCP (Tom Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Jail postmasters
Message-ID: <678@wang.UUCP>
Date: 26 Nov 89 20:29:43 GMT
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pjd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Peter J. Dotzauer) writes:

>I do not believe in the death penalty, but I propose stiff sentences
>for postmasters who repeatedly ignore inquiries.

There's a fair chance that the postmaster is "ignoring" you because
he's on vacation with nobody reading his mail, because he only gets
around to reading "postmaster" mail once in a while because of the
time pressure of his real job, or because there's a mail-eating demon
between you and him.

It's real unlikely he's just deliberately ignoring you.  I wouldn't
assume this unless some other proof showed up.

>Does have anyone a better idea of improving this human component of
>networking?

In the UUCP world, get his real phone no. from the maps and call him.
In the Internet world, "whois" him, and call him.  Grep the news for
for other people at his site, and write to them asking them what's
going on.  In the UUCP world, write to the postmasters of his UUCP
neighbors asking for help.  If all else fails, post a message to the
net - he's almost guaranteed to hear about it, even if he doesn't see
it himself.

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