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From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: More BITNET stupidity
Message-ID: <2079@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 29 Feb 88 22:22:40 GMT
References: <7136@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <448@fig.bbn.com> <1618@uoregon.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP (David Boyes)


In article <1618@uoregon.UUCP>, dboyes@uoregon (David Boyes) writes:
>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?

Because POSTMAST@anyhostname isn't an obvious place to complain to
(postmaster, on the other hand, is).  If you don't know about the
8-character limitation for usernames and mail addresses then you don't
know that sending mail to "postmaster" may not work.
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