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From: MRC@PANDA.COM (Mark Crispin)
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Subject: Wollongong TCP/IP for VAX/VMS
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Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 13:55:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  6 13:55:37 1987
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     I received my nth bug report from a Wollongong site today complaining
that mail didn't work between them and a DEC-20.  This is a ritual that I
end up undergoing multiple times a week.

     The problem is, of course, that the Wollongong software simply does
not work (even its original author, who is now behind a competing software
package, admits it) and that Wollongong simply does not care.

     I would like to see a policy statement forbidding US government sites
from wasting any more taxpayers' money on Wollongong software, and some
note from the NIC to that effect in the TCP/IP Vendors List.  Since
Wollongong presumably does care about its revenue, this might induce them
to fix the bugs...or go out of business, an equally acceptable alternative.

-- Mark --
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