From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Title: decvax situation 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2509
Posted: Wed Oct  6 01:41:26 1982
Received: Wed Oct  6 01:41:26 1982

Since Armando still is not answering his mail, I'm going to try
phoning him tomorrow.  If I can't get this mess on its way to being
cleared up in the next couple of days, an alternative news feed may
be in order.  While there is something to be said for connecting to
a reasonably "central" site, there is also something to be said for
connecting to a site which isn't quite so heavily loaded and which
has system people who answer their mail in emergencies.

Does anybody have any suggestions for feed sites other than Case
Western (cwruecmp)?  cwruecmp is (a) willing to be polled, (b) closer
than decvax, (c) equipped with triple modems [decvax has 212 only],
(d) not heavily loaded with uucp traffic, (e) willing to call us in
emergencies [e.g. autodialer trouble], and (f) staffed by people who
seem to believe in answering their mail.  (If I seem to be harping
on that last, I have good reason...)  A site which was willing to
call us on a regular basis would be better, but I'd be surprised
to find one.  (Oh, yes, cwruecmp is also (g) only one more hop away
from the major network nodes.)