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From: filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Does valid mail come from mmdf@udel?
Message-ID: <124.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Date: 30 Dec 89 07:25:38 GMT
References: <129742@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <129742@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Chuck McManis writes:
>I ask because I have recently put the line :
>/mmdf@udel.EDU/h:j
>into my kill file for c.s.a and it wipes out a pile of
>postings. Generally these are duplicates, although sometimes
>I can't tell. So the question is, is there any reason to
>worry about stuff from UDel ? If so, and lets say you
>are from udel and want to post something that I will see,
>then I suggest you post it from somewhere else.

Well... mmdf@udel.edu is a posting service for BITNET Amiga (and other?)
list readers.  When it is working correctly, I don't see any duplicates
from it, only original messages.  Unfortunately, it seems to be pretty
damn buggy and keeps screwing up and posting batches of duplicates.  It
also tends to do a horrible job of cleaning up headers, etc.  In
principle it should be a useful service, but I'm pretty doubtful given
the duplicates, extra header crap, and the amount of time it takes for a
reply to propagate through it.

But to answer your specific question, yes, there are valid posts from
mmdf@udel.edu.

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