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In article <876@fornax.UUCP> mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald) writes:
>Because my campus doesn't have general FTP access to off-campus
>loactions, I am trying to use the automated mail server at Rice
>to fetch files from the sumex Macintosh archives at Stanford.

A recent Info-Mac posting indicated that the mail server at Rice was having
major difficulties responding from requests from non-BITNET sites, and 
requesting that you stop trying to use it until they get it fixed:

|Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 14:27:25 CST
|From: "Mark R. Williamson" <MARK%RICE@icsa.rice.edu>
|Subject: Administrivia
|
|[The postmaster at RICE] has run into a problem.  He is getting hundreds of
|pieces of bounced mail per day, caused by non-BITNET, non-Internet sites asking
|our server for files.  Unfortunately, our gateway to the Internet and
|beyond does not know how to reach sites represented by MX records in the
|Internet Domain Name Servers.  The gateway function is performed by IBM's
|TCP/IP for VM product, 5798-FAL, which does not understand MX records.
|The IBM development team understands the problem, but has not yet issued
|changes to correct it.
|
|Until the gateway can handle MX records, I have to ask that use of our
|server be restricted to sites on, or directly addressible from, BITNET.
|Since users directly on the Internet should be able to FTP from Stanford,
|this should affect only users on "the far side" of the Internet as
|viewed from BITNET, primarily USENET sites.  Some sites are behind
|gateways smart enough to provide usable return addresses, via the %
|kludge or source routing, but since we cannot determine which sites
|those are, we must ask even them to stop using our server for a while.
|
|Our postmaster has been kind enough to forward as much of the bounced
|mail as he could (that for which he could find a gateway).  After this
|message appears in an Info-Mac digest, I will let him know that he may
|switch to telling users at non-addressible sites to stop using us.  If
|they continue, we may have to add code to our server to ignore requests
|>From those sites.
|
|We both are sorry to have to take this step, but he does have other
|work to do besides forwarding errant Macintosh archive files.
|
|Mark R. Williamson, Rice University, Houston, TX; MARK@ICSA.RICE.EDU
|Coordinating BITNET redistribution of Info-Mac archive files from Rice.
-- 
	Roger L. Long
	dhw68k!bytebug