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From: jsol@BUIT1.BU.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Administrivia - Status of TELECOM
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Date: Wed, 27-May-87 15:57:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 27 15:57:52 1987
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As we continue to experience pain and anguish over the conversion
from XX.LCS.MIT.EDU to BUIT1.BU.EDU, I note three problems, one of which
has been solved.

1) The digestifier was generating bad digests. Specifically
message #2 included the text of message #1; #3 contained
both #1 and #2, etc. etc. This made the digest very large
and without much content. This problem has been solved.

2) USENET continues to mail duplicate messages. I am manually
looking at each set of submissions before sending out a digest,
and I generally catch most of the duplicates; but occasionally
a digest goes out with a message from a previous digest. This
can't really be helped without a major programming effort;
something I do not have the time to do. This problem is really
a usenet-wide problem, and I believe the usenet administrators
are working on a fix, so bear with them (and me).

3) BUIT1.BU.EDU is having problems connecting to some of the digest
recipients. BBN.COM and YUMA.ARPA are examples of hosts I cannot send
mail to. This may be an exasperation of #1 above, since very large
digests might time out, I am not sure. This may be fixed when our
ARPANET connection goes in, but in the mean time, I will try
forwarding Telecom digests that I can't mail to directly, through a
forwarding host (probably XX.LCS.MIT.EDU).

Well, now you know what the state of TELECOM is. I pledge that I will
do what I can to insure the best possible digest, both in quality,
and in speed of delivery.