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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: Re: SIMTEL20
Message-ID: <13496@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 30 Mar 89 17:10:42 GMT
References: <cY9lhky00VsnE21V4O@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In article <cY9lhky00VsnE21V4O@andrew.cmu.edu> bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein) writes:
| Does anyone know why WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL has been unreachable for a couple of
| days now?  This is a major archive site and they have tons of stuff I absolutely
| cannot live without.
|
|               [Have you tried sending e-mail to
|               postmaster@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL?  If not, you
|               should have done that before bothering the net.  In

Excuse me? If the site is unreachable how would sending mail to it do
any good?

		[Presumably he meant that ftp didn't work. However,
		the mechanism for ftp and for mail is slightly
		different; it is possible for one to succeed when the
		other fails. For example, his problem might have been
		that the site was refusing ftp connections; in that
		case mail would have worked fine. Or, even in the
		event, he might have been using the internet address
		for ftp, which would have failed, but mail might have
		had its address resolved correctly. Anyway, I just
		want to encourage people to use private means for
		checking out problems before taking it to the net.
		tww]

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