Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!mintaka!ogicse!plains!overby From: overby@plains.UUCP (Glen Overby) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: compuserve gateway ?? Summary: broken mailer Message-ID: <3767@plains.UUCP> Date: 13 Mar 90 19:11:28 GMT References: <1231@prles2.prl.philips.nl> Reply-To: overby@plains.UUCP (Glen Overby) Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 41 In article <1231@prles2.prl.philips.nl> meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl () writes: >I'm receiving messages from compuserve.com!postmaster that my message >could not be delivered (mail delivery failure, no room in mailbox) >I've posted these messages on UseNet, so I was highly surprised to get >this response. comp.os.mininix is gatewayed bidirectionally to the internet mailing list info-minix@udel.edu (I'm the list maintainer). From there, it goes to minix-l@vm1.nodak.edu (aka ndsuvm1) for Bitnet redistribution. Actually, all distribution is done from ndsuvm1 because that's where I am. There are a few subscribers to that list on Compuserve. Compuserve has had a mail gateway to the internet via Ohio-State for quite some time now (maybe a year). There is no gatewaying between any Compuserve forums and the newsgroup (I've never looked at setting this up; I don't think Compuserve would let it be bidirectional). The reason you got the rejections instead of the list maintenance address is because Compuserve's mailer is busted. Forward one of them on to me and I'll scream at them (I've seen them before) The reply clearly says that that subscriber's mailbox size has been maxed out and your posting was tossed. His loss (and yours for having to deal with the reject mail). >A gateway also drags in some legal problems: >For instance my ST 1.1 to ST 1.5.0 upgrade contains the following notice: >"This upgrade kit carries a compilation copyright as far as the various > source files concerns. This document is copyrighted by F. Meulenbroeks, > 1989. Everyone is granted permission to redistribute both the upgrade > kit and this document freely. However, it is explicitly forbidden to > make money from this in any way. " >A gateway to a commercial system would surely violate this notice. what about public-access Usenet sites, like Portal, Well, and so on (there's about 75 of them)? Some of them ask money for access to their machine. And then there's UUNET, who charges for uucp access to their machine. -- Glen Overby uunet!plains!overby (UUCP) overby@plains (Bitnet)