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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: redistribution lists
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Date: Sun, 20-May-84 19:01:58 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 20 19:01:58 1984
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As long as people are thinking about *whom* to mail *what* to:

Every so often I post something to unix-wizards. Every so often
things do not go well. The last time I posted to unix-wizards,
some site (I think it was BRL, but I could be wrong) which
appears to be a critical path for many people was down. Very down.

I received more than 300 messages saying that the mail was undeliverable.
There would have been many fewer messages if it wasn't deemed fit to
tell me that``Messaged failed after x days, trying for y more days '' 
or some such.

It conceivably would have been useful to tell me ``problem
suspected at BRL (if indeed that was the site)'', ONCE, but sending me
the text of my message did not help much. I shudder to think of
what would have happened if I had posted 4 or 5 articles to
unix-wizards that week. 


I was the wrong person to send this stuff to. There wasn't a thing I
could do, so I threw it all away. I also throw away messages that I
receive which inform me that somebody who used to be on the mailing
list no longer has an account. Something tells me
somebody else would be a better person to inform.

Laura Creighton
decvax!utzoo!laura@berkeley
-- 
Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura

	"Not to perpetrate cowardice against one's own acts!
	 Not to leave them in the lurch afterward! The bite
	 of conscience is indecent"	-- Nietzsche
					The Twilight of the Idols (maxim 10)