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From: fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU (Erik E. &)
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Subject: Re: Usenet contacts
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 09:29:17 EDT
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In article <1049@Shasta.ARPA> andy@Shasta.ARPA writes:
>
>Is there some reason that there is no standard mail box at every site
>for usenet problems, question, etc?  (For those of you with arpanet
>experience, the postmaster address serves much the same purpose.)

The standard one is `usenet', unfortunately there are two problems:

	1. people set up shop without reading the documentation all
		the way (and therefore don't get to that little tidbit).

	2. the majority of mailers on the UUCP/USENET do not support
		mail aliasing as those of us fortunate enough to have
		2 or 4 BSD know it.

Fortunately, you are in a position to affect the behavior of your
neighbors. Since you know better, convince your UUCP/USENET neighbors
(the ones who you are most likely to have problems with in any case) to
set up such aliases (if that's possible on their system), and suggest
that they do so with their neighbors. Assure them that if they mail to
the appropriate address on YOUR system, that the problem will be taken
care of promptly, regardless of whether you handle it, or someone you
designate handles it.

Who knows? It might spread, and we could stop debating this topic...

	keeper of the network news for ucbvax,

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU