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From: jeffs@quad1.UUCP (Jeff Sonstein)
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Subject: Re: ihnp4 problems
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Date: Thu, 28-Aug-86 10:45:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 28 10:45:53 1986
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> Keywords: ihnp4 seismo mail
> Xref: psivax net.news:2481 net.news.adm:706
> 
> [ shoes for industry ]
> 
> 
> I have encountered a major problem with routing mail through
> ihnp4.  ihnp4 has a tendency to bounce mail with a message about
> failing to contact the remote machine.  Usually this only happens
> when I send from ihnp4 to seismo, but will also happen occasionally
> with other machines.  I wouldn't consider this too much of a problem
> except that the failure rate is quite high (about 1/3 of my mail
> gets bounced).  I realize email isn't completely reliable, but even
> the post office does better than this.
> 
> ----------
> Mike Roth  -  ihnp4!laidbak!miker

[ shoes for defense... ]

it seems like ALL my mail thru them gets bounced...