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From: lhl@parmesan.wisc.edu (L.H. Landweber)
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Subject: WISCVM FUTURE
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Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 12:32:50 EDT
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On December 1, WISCVM will be shut down.  Hence, as of 
that date, we will no longer be able to provide a mail 
relay service between Arpanet and BITNET.

WISCVM currently handles between 5 and 10 thousand
messages per day. Clearly, this service is very important 
to the academic/research network community. As such
it should be fully supported. Many of you may not
be aware that at present the WISCVM relay is only supported 
by a volunteer student (indeed, this summer he  
has a full-time job off campus).  Because of the 
(admittedly) inadequate level of support, problems
arise periodically. For example, for the past day
most messages have been rejected. The current problem
occurred because there was some ambiguity in our
instructions for installing new host tables.

We would be happy to provide advice on what is 
required to run a supported mail relay. Besides
operations and bug fixing, such support should  
include consulting for system administrators (if 
not for users).  Hopefully, some suitable
organization will be found to provide this
service.


Larry Landweber