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- From: jjmcwill@mtu.edu (Jeff McWilliams)
- Subject: FAQ vs C.S.A.8.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.023028.16193@mtu.edu>
- Organization: Michigan Technological University
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 02:30:28 GMT
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- Subject: FAQ vs. CSA8/Berkeley Com Problems
- Status: O
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- [Jeff, please forward to the csa8 newsgroup, thanks!]
-
- This one is for Michael Current.
-
- In the recently posted FAQ list you state:
-
- "To contribute to the Info-Atari8 Digest, send your posting to comp-sys-atari-
- 8bit@....
- Please note: there is NEVER a good reason to to send anything to the address
- Info-Atari8@naucse.... "
-
- Well Michael I must take exception to that. It was good advice up until the
- first week of November. After 2 years of active participation in this news-
- group, during the first week of Nov. all my postings to csa8 suddenly started
- bouncing. Notice I don't put in much appearance here lately? A few folks
- have even wondered where I've been lately, & guys like Jeff McWilliams have
- sorta been standing in for me.
-
- When the problems began I wasted a lot of time with sysadmins at my end, as I
- thought the sudden disruption had something to do with yet another of the
- endless rounds of "upgrades" these people are always doing here (sometimes
- with disastrous results). Eventually I found someone here who was halfway
- competent who demonstrated to my satisfaction the problem wasn't at my site.
-
- I sent an e-mail inquiry to the Postmaster at Berkeley about the problem. Those
- bums took like 2 weeks to reply. There story was that they had taken some
- disk drives offline & reallocated them to other use which had apparently been
- employed in retransmitting Internet messages sent to csa8 back out onto USENET.
- They informed me in a kind of terse, cryptic style that c-s-a-8 was for "local"
- users only. I'm in Pennsylvania, 3,000 miles away, I guess that's not "local".
- So outside of a certain geographical radius, Berkeley has cut off all the non-
- locals like me. I'm reduced to being able to read the Digest on Internet
- without being able to respond. The frustration has given way to depression.
-
- So, if we aren't to send messages to IA8 (only the Internet people see them if
- you do), just WHERE should we now send our responses if Berkely isn't going to
- forward stuff to USENET any more?
-
- Thus my exception to the statement "there"s NEVER a good reason to send to
- Info-Atari8...". Well, *I* have a good reason: Berkeley has cut me off & now
- bounces everything I send to c-s-a-8. I'm sure I'm not the only person
- affected by this. Any hope of someone setting those Berkely people straight
- & letting us "non-locals" post again? Or, is there some other address we can
- use that will cross-post to USENET like Berkeley did?
-
- I really HATE this feeling of isolation.
-
- - BEN POEHLAND
- The Alchemist
- Managing Editor, ATARI CLASSICS Magazine
- poehland%phvax.dnet@smithkline.com
-
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- Jeff McWilliams jjmcwill@mtu.edu EE Engineer --> Michigan Tech.
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