Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: The test posting to CBIP Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 90 18:28:46 GMT References: <90046.152447P85025@BARILVM.BITNET Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 16 In-reply-to: Doron Shikmoni's message of Thursday, 15 Feb 1990 15:24:47 O In article <90046.152447P85025@BARILVM.BITNET Doron Shikmoni writes: Recently there has been a test posting to comp.binaries.ibm.pc that contained some test uuencoded-zoo'ed file, with a request to respond if there are any problems. Well, I had problems uudecoding it (which I didn't have with Rahul's postings) and tried to respond. However, my attempts to reply bounced - "User unknown". Has anyone else experienced this? Yes, I contacted Bill Davidsen about it -- he said that it was a combination of the alias not being installed yet, and an extra s at the end. Sometime next week it will be installed, and it will be ibmbin-request@crdgw1.ge.com -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems