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From: wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: nntpd questions
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Date: 6 Feb 90 05:29:28 GMT
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In-reply-to: mdb@ESD.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke)

Mark D. Baushke:

>Sounds to me like you should get a secondary nameserver which is
>'closer' to the NFSNet backbone.

Don't think I haven't tried. Unfortunately, it seems that the person
here that's "responsible" for the nameservers is more interested in
maintaining a locally written VMS mailer that's actually a relic from
an old Honeywell system than taking a few moments to adjust his NS
lists. Bureaucracy blows.

Bill Wisner <wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> Gryphon Gang Fairbanks AK 99775
"Early one June morning in 1872 I murdered my father--an act which made a
deep impression on me at the time." -- Ambrose Bierce