Xref: utzoo news.admin:4522 news.sysadmin:2064 news.config:1083 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!killer!dcs!wnp From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,news.config Subject: Re: French and UK sites wanted for EUcon. Message-ID: <308@dcs.UUCP> Date: 22 Jan 89 14:34:19 GMT References: <96@i2ack.UUCP> <303@dcs.UUCP> <55538@pyramid.pyramid.com> <105@i2ack.UUCP> <459@eda.com> <32219@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas Lines: 34 In article <32219@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Bill Wisner writes: >>I feel appalled that in this time of increased connectivity, we now >>are creating a situation in which some people on Usenet cannot >>communicate with other people on Usenet. > >Picture: a EUCon user sends mail to pyramid, to uunet, to EUNet. >Simple enough, no? It would be, except a recent posting indicated that the EUNet backbone sites will throw out anything with the name of a EUCon site (or for that matter, any European site which is not registered with EUNet) anywhere in the path. This is where I have my problem with this system: I can understand and accept that EUNet does not want to pass mail from one unregistered site to another, but as long as either the destination or the origin of a message is within EUNet, they ought to pass it on, as a courtesy to their own member sites. If they do not do that, then I question (as a USENIX member) whether UUNET should allow them reduced rate or free access to uunet -- they are not legitimately fulfilling the gateway function which is the basis for their special treatment. I am in a situation where I might soon be moving to Europe, and will probably join the national User Group in whichever country I go to, and thus become a registered EUNet site. I do not want EUNet telling me who I can correspond with, after I pay whatever membership or access charges apply. -- Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101 UUCP: killer!dcs!wnp ESL: 62832882 DOMAIN: dcs!wnp@killer.dallas.tx.us TLX: 910-380-0585 EES PLANO UD