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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET
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Subject: (Hexified) Binaries from APPLE2-L
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Date: 10 Apr 88 22:45:00 GMT
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 TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.arpa writes:
>... mystery code that came back from
>BROWNVM (or wherever:  the return routing says it in fact came via MIT,
>even though I had to send the request via CUNY)...

Since wiscvm.wisc.edu got overwhelmed by the traffic and tossed in
the towel, the bitnet administration decided to regionalize gateways.
You may send from arpa to bitnet through any gate, but from bitnet
to arpa mail is sent to a "pseudo-node" (namely 'INTERBIT') which
the local route tables (as assigned by the net administration)
translates to whatever regional node is assigned to the originating
site.  For most New England bitnet nodes that's mitvma.mit.edu
(even though the number of nodes between uconnvm or brownvm and
cuny.edu is the same as for mit.edu.  I haven't any idea how many
regional nodes presently are active (cuny.edu, mit.edu, harvard.edu,
and, I think, rutgers.edu.. no doubt there are others present or planned).

In short it is normal for you to receive files from brownvm via mit.
The LISTSERV sees that you are an arpa address and sends to you
via INTERBIT.

You might ask STEIN@UCONNVM.bitnet, DICKSON@HARTFORD.bitnet, or
REWING@TRINCC.bitnet about those IIgs "beep" routines.  I believe
they all have been using them as obtained from APPLE2-L for some time.

Since you mention the possible risk of those routines.  It occured to
me that I shouldn't just download and pass along the "vaccine" program
that recently was posted to APPLE2-L because I haven't a IIgs to test
it on.  It would be ironic if we all accepted a "vaccine" that reports
everthing is okay while it installs its own virus on all our disks (we
would undoubtedly use the program to test every disk we have, wouldn't
we).

>I went to a (different) Ivy League school myself...

which (different) Ivy League schoool (I thought they were ALL different ;-)
- I'm Princeton '64.

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ARPA:   sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu       Murphy A. Sewall
BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM                          School of Business Admin.
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