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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: new paths to cubsvax - (nf)
Message-ID: <1165@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Dec-83 19:52:14 EST
Article-I.D.: watcgl.1165
Posted: Fri Dec 30 19:52:14 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Dec-83 08:08:13 EST
References: <923@gummo.UUCP>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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I second the comments about reporting or investigating the failure of a
connection rather than just complaining about it.

About 2 months ago, I noticed purely by accident that files had been
sitting around for about 4 or 5 days waiting to be delivered to a
machine that watcgl polls.  A bit of investigation showed that the
phone line to our one-and-only dialer was completely dead; reporting it
to Bell Canada got it fixed the next day.  Since most of our uucp
connections are bidirectional, traffic was still getting out to most
places we talk with simply from them calling us to deliver mail.  The
problem could have gone for several weeks before I noticed it, and no
one had reported anything wrong to me.

There are all sorts of things that can cause a uucp connection to be
lost.  Please spend some of your own time trying to track down a
problem or notify the appropriate problem before complaining about it
in public.  It's time more usefully spent.