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- From: SYSTEM@TEX.AC.UK (UK TeX Archive Manager <system@uk.ac.tex>)
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- Subject: RE: What is the PC way of testing mail/network connectivity?
- Message-ID: <10268657@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 12:42 GMT
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- In message <9301211703.AA07595@hqpyr1.us.oracle.com> dated Thu, 21 Jan 93
- 09:03:51 PST COMET@com.oracle.us (Comet) said:
-
- >In-Reply-To: HQPYR1:info-multinet-relay@TGV.COM's message of 01-21-93 06:32
- >
- >On USEnet, there are test newsgroups (e.g. ba.test, misc.test) which are used
- >to test if a person's posts will make it out into the greater computropolis.
- >
- >But where is a test mail address? Is there some kind of mail-reflector or a
- >gateway to/from the test newsgroups or anything? After all, not every site HAS
- >USEnet newsgroups.
-
- Seems like a ``good idea'' to have such a reflector, but I've never heard of
- one {\latin per se}.
-
- However, anyone who is interested is welcome to use a facility which was set up
- on this machine back in the drear dark days in which callers to TeXserver were
- required to provide a return address. Since many people didn't know what this
- would be (given that non-Janet callers were furthermore required to specify the
- approriate gateway too), I set up a facility such that anyone could mail to
- <RMCS_TeX@TeX.ac.uk> specifying a subject line in the mail that read WHERE AM I,
- with or without whitespace, and with or without a trailing `?'. The text could
- appear in UPPER, lower or mIxEd case.
-
- What was mailed back was a message giving the address of the calling site in a
- format that could be used (in fact was used, to post the notification) to send
- TO that calling site FROM uk.ac.TeX. The only restriction that I would warn
- you of these days is that the command procedure which does the parsing is still
- only cognizant of Grey-Book Mail address ordering, for mail arriving through
- DEC's CBS product. IT WILL NOT understand incoming SMTP mail, which has the
- addresses in the reverse of the standard UK ordering, although such mail is
- receivable here. So if your mailer bypasses the MX records which specify that
- mail for TeX.ac.uk shall be routed through nsfnet-relay.ac.uk, it won't work.
-
- Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
- System Manager for the
- UK TeX Archive at Aston Universtiy
-