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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
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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!

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