Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!iguana!merce
From: merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer)
Subject: Re: FTPmail: silent, very silent ...
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.034734.2092@iguana.uucp>
Keywords: decwrl.dec.com
Organization: Ed (the iguana) Memorial Society
References: <1991Jun25.140135.22715@rivm.nl>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 03:47:34 GMT

In article <1991Jun25.140135.22715@rivm.nl> a3@rivm39.rivm.nl (Adri Verhoef) writes:
>Before Paul Vixie announced ftpmail on USENET several weeks ago,
>we were here already making use of it on a small base.
>
>During the last few weeks I have sent some five requests to ftpmail,
>among which some 'help' messages, but I have had no response
>whatsoever.  I'm not the only one at my site who has experienced
>null response from ftpmail.
>  Do other people in European maildomains have had any luck?
>
>I even sent mail to Paul Vixie two weeks ago, but got no response
>so far.
>  What's the story?

i think that ftpmail has picked up the slack from the BITNET clamp down.

Paul posted some stats showing a marked (severe) increase from the date that
the BITFTP server restricted access to only BITNET sites.

the delays/lost mail(?) may be related to overload on their system.

[ just speculating ]

also, i believe that the ftpmail server restricts flow to X meg a day or
by some similar criteria.


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