Xref: utzoo news.admin:4140 news.sysadmin:1765 comp.mail.uucp:2421 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!darth!investor!news From: news@investor.UUCP ( Bob Peirce) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Rerouters again (was: Dangerous hole in Usenet!) Message-ID: <1045@investor.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 13:36:06 GMT References: <1227@vsi1.UUCP> <871@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> <1251@vsi1.UUCP> Reply-To: rbp@invest.UUCP (Bob Peirce #74) Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 21 In article <1251@vsi1.UUCP> lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes: >In article <871@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> dww@acer.UUCP (David Wright) writes: >=In a later article Larry notes that only 1% of sites have mailed him to >=ask about it. I wonder how many have actually done so, but not got >=to him? I've tried 3 times now: once to lmb@vsi1.uucp, once to the >=address in his sig (via ames), and once to an address made out of his Path >=converted to % form. All three bounced from either ames or from altnet >=with 'bad system name', e.g. > >I would be curious to see bounces from ames. As far as altnet, this is one >of the reasons why rerouters are COMPLETELY wrong. We eliminated our >connection to them after they had been on autopilot for several months. I I checked my paths file and vsil isn't even in it! Both uunet!altnet and uunet!ames are there, but no vsil. Maybe ames doesn't know about you! -- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320 uucp: ...!{allegra, bellcore, cadre, idis, psuvax1}!pitt!investor!rbp NOTE: Mail must be < 30K bytes/message