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From: doug@hokulea.hig.hawaii.edu (Doug Myhre)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: No replies from Simtel20 anymore!
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Date: 24 Apr 89 19:28:36 GMT
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In article <244f271b@ralf> Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>In article <2530008@hpbsla.HP.COM>, eboston@hpbsla.HP.COM (Ed_Boston) writes:
>}I have had siimilar problems with SIMTEL.  I finally got a response today.
>}I sent a request at 6am and and the "request pending" message at midnight.
>}
>}Since SIMTEL is a "as time allows" system, I would guess that the system is
>}in a heavy use period.
>
>SIMTEL is *always* in a heavy use period....

That's funny, I live out in Hawaii and never seem to have any trouble
getting files off of SIMTEL.  I even often can get in durring normally
"busy" hours.  Maybe you got a bad path to the machine.

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