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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: What irks me about Unix mail
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Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 13:30:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 13:30:23 1984
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> ... Most of the time, when I do this I get a message from
> some program (you never know on Unix where messages come from) telling
> me that the destination was unreachable. ...
> 
> ... On VMS I know as
> soon as I get the prompt for Subject that the destination is reachable.

Welcome to the world of real networking, where one cannot assume that a
specific program (your mailer) on a specific machine (your host) knows
everything about the network.  "It just ain't that simple no more."
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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