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From: caspar@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Caspar Terheggen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: ps-file-server
Summary: ps-file-manager is now ps-file-person
Message-ID: <422@wn2.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 17 Apr 89 08:15:04 GMT
References: <4725@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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In article <4725@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, moore@PULSAR.FAC.CS.CMU.EDU (Dale Moore) writes:
> Adobe use to run a file server.
[stuff deleted]
> Somewhere between 03-Mar and 10-Apr it stopped working for me.
> I send messages and get no replies.

I noticed this too. It started with the server not knowing about files that
it is supposed to own according to its documents index.

> I sent a message to adobe!ps-file-manager@sun.com.
> I understood that this was to be a real person.
> My message was returned from adobe.com with "User Unknown".

A while ago I saw an article in this newsgroup which announced that the
name ps-file-manager was changed to ps-file-person. This was done to 
stress the fact that ps-file-server is actually a program that handles
file requests, whereas ps-file-person is a real human being (Glenn C. Reid
himself, if I'm not mistaken) to whom only `meta-requests' should be
mailed.

> My question is...
> Has Adobe discontinued this service?  Or are my mail systems
> just screwed up?

I hope not, and I don't think so, respectively. I believe the problem must be
somewhere with the (mail-)server of adobe itself. I e-mailed a message to
ps-file-person@adobe.com about it a few days ago, but I haven't had any
response yet.

> Dale Moore
> -- 

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