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From: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP (David Boyes)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: More BITNET stupidity
Message-ID: <1627@uoregon.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 88 05:31:43 GMT
References: <7136@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <448@fig.bbn.com> <1618@uoregon.UUCP> <7446@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: dboyes@drizzle.UUCP (David Boyes)
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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In article <7446@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>(Jumping into the fray with both feet, he held his breath and said:)
>
>How about supporting a standard mailing address for mail problems,
>David?  At least, can your machine use a ten-character long mail
>delivery alias to turn "POSTMASTER" into "POSTMAST"?

It does. So does UW. So do all sites (that I've found) on BITNET
supporting RFC 822 compatible mail. Sites supporting only IBM NOTE
format are a different story, though -- but those sites don't do
redistribution of mailing lists for exactly that reason.

> Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
> bob@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!bob

Aargh. The last of the mangled files went through almost a week ago.
Things should be quiet now -- I think the UW folks understand what
happened now and (hopefully) won't do it again.

We're keeping our fingers crossed.


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