🚀 go-pugleaf

The word I have been hearing of late is that there are few (and getting fewer)
people left around the ridges with any understanding of ACSnet and SUNIII 
software (or even MHSnet?).  The backbones are mostly AARnet these days.  As 
time goes by and links fail it gets harder to find someone who can put things
right.

For us ACSnet has broken down for the second time this year.  When our
machine bohra in Hawthorn sends a message to munnari, only 10-20kms away, it
goes fairly directly in only 2 hops.  Return messages go via Sydney!

Somewhere along this long return route messages are inclined to go astray.
At the moment we can get no response from munnari.oz.  The last time this
happened it was shown to be a fault with the return path
munnari->basser->perch->ditmela.  At the moment the return path is supposed to
be munnari->basser->ditmela.

Anyway it's still broken.  For us ACSnet is as good as gone.  Fortunately we 
get mail and news via AARnet avoiding the bulk of ACSnet.
To fetch files I can use ftpmail via uow, and they will be getting a lot of
business from me.

I wonder how long until ACSnet fragments really badly, or will some kind 
soul look into it?
-- 
Anthony Shipman                 "You've got to be taught before it's too late,
C. P. Software                   Before you are six or seven or eight,
19 Cato St., East Hawthorn,      To hate all the people your relatives hate,
Melbourne, Australia, 3121       You've got to be carefully taught."  R&H