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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
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 09:47:00 1985
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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 */
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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
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