Aucbvax.4797
fa.editor-p
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!editor-people
Thu Oct 29 15:58:33 1981
Re: mail systems standards
>From CSD.NOWICKI@SU-SCORE Thu Oct 29 15:09:37 1981
These tell-tale exclamation points indicate that "UUCP" is the culprit.
The problem is that there are numerous versions of Unix, each with many
different mail programs. Actually, the forwarding of this mail by
Berkeley is quite suspect, since most of those "UseNet" users are not
Arpa contractors.  I am not arguing for stopping information flow,
but the problem is that these people communicate with autodialers that
call each other up at 2am every morning.  Thus by the time the message
gets to them, and they give their response, it has often gone through
a half dozen phone hops and taken a week.  In the meantime we get
another dozen responses from other scattered about the country because
of the phase problem.  If you think this is bad on editor-people, you should
see unix-wizards!

I think pressure should be brought against Bezerkeley to stop polluting
the mail systems with stuff that does not conform to RFC 733.

	-- Bill
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