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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: (none)
Message-ID: <8811211200.aa18717@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Date: 20 Nov 88 20:45:28 GMT
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>Can anyone tell me what the overlap is between Info-App@NDSUVM1 and
>the readnews group comp.sys.apple?  Several messages (including one
>that I send only to Info-App) have shown up in both places, but not
>all (I think -- perhaps all are duplicated and I've just missed some.)

There actually are THREE distributions of the list:

info-apple@BRL.MIL     Internet
comp.sys.apple         USENET (most of UUCP, but not all)
INFO-APP@NDSUVM1.BITN  BITNet

Anything sent by USENET readers to comp.sys.apple is *automatically*
gatewayed to info-apple@BRL.MIL.  Anything sent to info-apple@BRL.MIL
(or arriving from comp.sys.apple) is *automatically* sent to
INFO-APP@NDSUVM1.  Anything sent to info-apple@BRL.MIL from other than
comp.sys.apple is *automatically* gatewayed to comp.sys.apple.

However, ===> NOTE <=== mail sent to INFO-APP@NDSUVM1.BITNet goes
to BITNet subscribers ONLY (that is, BITNet subscribers should post mail
to info-apple@BRL.MIL).

All three lists carry the SAME messages, but NOT in the same order.
BITNet's habit of sending shorter messages first frequently results in
answers being posted before the questions arrive.  You'll get used to it.
Mail also backs up at gateways (or BITNet nodes) from time to time, so
it isn't unusual not to receive anything from INFO-APP for two or three
days followed by a hundred messages in 30 minutes (you'll get used to that
too).  Finally, there are occasional ACK (acknowledge) problems between
the BITNet/Internet gateway that results in duplication of messages (usually
longer ones).  New hardware due to be installed next summer (?) *may*
fix or reduce that particular eccentricity.

                                     [The Far Side shall return (I hope)]
Murph Sewall     Sewall@UCONNVM.BITNET
Business School  sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu          [INTERNET]
U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax}
                 !UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL                        [UUCP]

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