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From: ravi@duke.cs.duke.edu (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Newsgroups: news.misc,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: BITNET redistributions and USENET Gateways (or Why I Hate BITNET)
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Date: 1 Feb 88 01:09:41 GMT
References: <607@cernvax.UUCP> <2802@alvin.mcnc.org> <1727@saturn.ucsc.edu> <22802@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
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Posted: Sun Jan 31 20:09:41 1988

In article <22802@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (Erik E. Fair) writes:
>Failing that, you can complain to
>INFO-ATARI16-REQUEST@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU, which is the address of the
>ARPANET mailing list coordinator.
>
>
>	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu


	Before we're innundated with gobs of flames, I'd like to point
out that Bill Westfield (he's the chap who puts the digests together)
has added a "SENDER" field to the outgoing digests, in the hope that
the errant BITNET mailer(s) will bounce mail back to the address in
the SENDER field, and not to the name in the "FROM" field.  The SENDER
field is set to "info-atari-request" so that we'll get the bounced
digests and take action.  The "FROM" field remains "info-atari", so that 
BITNET folks who use the REPLY function to send notes to info-atari will be 
able to do so without swamping the "request" address with mail that
should go to the list.  Of course, all this assumes some sort of
rational behaviour on the part of the BITNET mailers...

>P.S.	there is a special place in purgatory for the people
>	responsible for BITNET's so-called mail system.

	I just wanted everyone to read that again..

								-ravi