Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: What irks me about Unix mail Message-ID: <4724@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 13:30:23 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4724 Posted: Mon Dec 3 13:30:23 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 3-Dec-84 13:30:23 EST References: <198@ucsbcsl.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13 > ... 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 {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry