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Re: STARTUP.NOS

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From: Steph Taylor
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 00:00
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 In article <821993446_OASIS_@the-gap.demon.co.uk>
  gary@the-gap.demon.co.uk (Gary Priest) said:-

> In article <SIMONO.96Jan17090100@office.demon.net>
>  simono@office.demon.net (Simon Oke) said:-
>
>>In article <5577dbrewood@nest.demon.co.uk> dbrewood@nest.demon.co.uk (Daron Brewood) writes:
>>
>>>  Can anyone see any problems with the following file as I'm getting loads 
>>>  of problems sending mail back out into the net:
>>
>>Yes. You are still using gate.demon.co.uk as your smtp gateway.
>>gate is no longer a smtp gateway, and has not been supported as
>>such for some time. There are some other changes I'd recommend too.
>
>How come I missed this little gem. Until last night I'd been sending e-mail
>quite happily and I had 'smtp gateway [158.152.1.65] in my startup.nos.
>Last night, all of a sudden (and today) I've been unable to send a single
>e-mail.
>
>I read this posting and tried changing it to [158.152.1.72] and hey presto it
>now works..
>
>So it would seem it HAS been supported until yesterday. God knows why I missed
>any Demon announcement about it changing. When was it made ?
>

And me too. Perhaps this change was announced before I got online, but you'd
think 'small' items like this would be mentioned to new users. Especially as
Demon doesn't change/support the software it doesn't supply from its BBS... 

Thank god Atari owners are sticking together through our adversity. I'd have
lost a lot of sleep & friends over not being able to Email certain folk.

Until I get riled up enough to rant again,
  
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  Steph Taylor             steph@wuss.demon.co.uk
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From: Steph@wuss.demon.co.uk (Steph Taylor)
Subject: Re: STARTUP.NOS
Date: 1996/01/18
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