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From: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP (David Boyes)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: More BITNET stupidity
Message-ID: <1618@uoregon.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 02:51:58 GMT
References: <7136@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <448@fig.bbn.com>
Reply-To: dboyes@drizzle.UUCP (David Boyes)
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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In article <448@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>I get lots of those stupid !@#$ BITNET failure messages, lately it seems
>I'm guaranteed to get at least one for each comp.sources.unix article I
>put out.  I have found that the only thing that works is to send a sharp
>message, full of lots of SHOUTING CAPITALS to {postmaster,listserv,rscs}@
>{every-host-mentioned-in-a-header} with all the mail messages appended.

Gee, I never thought I'd have to flame Rich Salz, failthful moderator
of far too many groups to count, but here goes:

How about sending a message to POSTMAST@UWAVM.BITNET before
complaining to the whole net, Rich? You'll notice that the messages
you're complaining about all come from RSCS@UWAVM -- why not start
with the source of the problem?

>If anyone knows of a better place to complain about this kind of stuff,
>I'd like to hear about it ASAP; isn't there a BITNET engineering task
>meeting this week?  (I wish I could avoid the tendency to claim that's
>on oxymoron. :-)

See above.

>	/rich $alz, moderator of comp.sources.unix



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