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What's up with nsfnet-relay.ac.uk ?

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From: George "Sir Lleb" Zipperlen
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1991 21:11
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For the last 2 weeks, I've been having trouble sending mail to many UK
university sites that are MX'd to nsfnet-relay.ac.uk .  Should I try
explicit alternate routes, or BITNET? -- some messages from these sites
are getting to me at upenn by way of PUCC. 

Sample error message:

> Subject: Returned mail: Cannot send message for 3 days
> [...]
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 421 prime2.bristol-poly.ac.uk.tcp... Deferred: Connection timed out during 
>	user open with nsfnet-relay.ac.uk

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From: george@hyper.lap.upenn.edu (George "Sir Lleb" Zipperlen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: What's up with nsfnet-relay.ac.uk ?
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Date: 7 Mar 91 21:11:59 GMT
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