Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site ccvaxa Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: news being bounced off arpanet! Message-ID: <2800014@ccvaxa> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 09:47:00 EST Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.2800014 Posted: Mon Oct 28 09:47:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 05:04:59 EST References: <846@mcvax.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:mcvax.UUCP:-84600:ccvaxa:2800014:000:687 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!preece Oct 28 08:47:00 1985 > Among other odious behaviour exhibited by these mailers is that they > will try an address for three days, and EACH DAY they will send an > update if the message has not gotten through. Personally, I only want > to know when my message finally fails. Before that, I don't want to > hear it! /* Written 3:21 am Oct 25, 1985 by > fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU in ccvaxa:net.micro.atari */ ---------- That's a necessary attitude on Usenet, where mail may take two weeks to arrive at its destination. Perhaps the Arpanet people, with continuous connectivity, are used to mail performance that makes a one day delay onerous. -- scott preece gould/csd - urbana ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece