Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!att!tellab5!toth
From: toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Joseph G. Toth Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: APPLE2-L brownvm.BITNET!listserv
Keywords: help
Message-ID: <1389@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>
Date: 8 Jun 89 18:43:17 GMT
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle, IL
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Some time ago I was able to access some files from this listserv.

However, for the last couple of months, there has been no response (AT ALL).
No file transfers...   No bounce messages...   NOTHING.

This is also true of kermsrv@CUVMA and netserv@BITNIC.

Info:

  I am located on a node on USENET, so I guess that the files must go
  through a gateway.

  If I mis-spell the node name, I do get a bounce about host not known.
  My guess is that the bounce is always from the USENET side.

  I mail with the command;  'mail -v uunet\!brownvm.BITNET\!listserv'
  The mailer informs me that thhe message was sent ok.

Questions:

  Is this a problem with the USENET/BITNET gateway?
  Destination address on BITNET??
  Return Address to USENET???
  What else could it be????

  Are there Download limits placed on users?
  Are there Upload requirements that allow further downloads?

  Could the APPLE2-L node post a monthly report regarding access levels
  and bounced requests to comp.sys.apple or comp.binaries.apple2?

  Is there some other means of knowing whether my requests are lost
  before getting to APPLE2-L, or lost on the return trip?
  Or simply ignored by the servers??

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Maybe I shouldn't have done it, sarcasm is so   | Joseph G. Toth Jr.
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