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From: NU021172@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Marty Hoag)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTE, COMP.INTERNET.ADDR AND COMP.INTERNET
Message-ID: <2084NU021172@NDSUVM1>
Date: 28 Mar 89 20:54:54 GMT
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Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network, Fargo, ND
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   I would not favor the comp.internet.addr group as I too believe
it would give people a false sense of the hosts.txt being useful.  It is
only useful in the sense of a last resort...  The domain name servers
should always be used first.

   However, as a "postmaster" I would like a place to find out about
known wedged systems, etc.  Recently I spent some days trying to figure
out why mail was not getting to one host only to find out their software
had been on the fritz for a couple weeks.  I suspect some "neighbors"
already knew that but neither hostmaster nor other sources I tried
knew what had happened.

   For general host queries there is the Info-Nets list (not sure what
if any group that is gatewayed with).  Is there such a group to post
announcements of outages or queries as to the health of internet systems?

             Marty

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Marty Hoag
ND Higher Education Computer Network    US Mail: NDSU Computer Center
Phone: (701)-237-8639                            PO Box 5164 / UCCS
Bitnet:   NU021172@NDSUVM1    (NOTE 0 = ZERO)    Fargo, ND  58105
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