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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: problems with nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.142600.8252@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 14:26:00 GMT
References: <75539@bu.edu.bu.edu> <1991Feb26.192433.25943@nstn.ns.ca> <1991Feb27.122824.28436@hemel.bull.co.uk>
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In article <1991Feb27.122824.28436@hemel.bull.co.uk> pmoore@hemel.bull.co.uk (Paul Moore) writes:
>I reckon the problem is a policy change in nsfnet.
>Doing telnet nsfnet...... gets in OK
>Doing telnet nsfnet... 25 times out. This does not mean nobody is listening

 It is really enjoyable reading all of these sinister theories.

 Did it occur to anyone that perhaps, in the aftermath of the link having
been down, the machine is struggling to handle the backlog and can't always
keep up with the volume of incoming SMTP connections.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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