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Article #4677Re: More BITNET stupidity
From: Henry Mensch
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 1988 22:22
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 1988 22:22
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In article <1618@uoregon.UUCP>, dboyes@uoregon (David Boyes) writes:
>How about sending a message to POSTMAST@UWAVM.BITNET before
>complaining to the whole net, Rich? You'll notice that the messages
>you're complaining about all come from RSCS@UWAVM -- why not start
>with the source of the problem?
Because POSTMAST@anyhostname isn't an obvious place to complain to
(postmaster, on the other hand, is). If you don't know about the
8-character limitation for usernames and mail addresses then you don't
know that sending mail to "postmaster" may not work.
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# Henry Mensch / <henry@garp.mit.edu> / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA
# {ames,cca,rochester,harvard,mit-eddie}!garp!henry
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!mit-amt!henry@garp.mit.edu From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: More BITNET stupidity Message-ID: <2079@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: 29 Feb 88 22:22:40 GMT References: <7136@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <448@fig.bbn.com> <1618@uoregon.UUCP> Sender: usenet@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU Reply-To: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) Organization: The Temple of St. Todd the Incontinent Lines: 12 In-reply-to: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP (David Boyes)