Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!microsof!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!we13!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!smith From: smith@umn-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Overseas connection - (nf) Message-ID: <255@umn-cs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Jun-83 18:06:44 EDT Article-I.D.: umn-cs.255 Posted: Sun Jun 5 18:06:44 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jun-83 23:23:24 EDT Lines: 16 #R:cwruecmp:-32500:umn-cs:7400002:000:815 umn-cs!smith Dec 13 11:30:00 1982 I suspect that U Edinburgh isn't on the arpanet per se, but is actually on EPSS or some other university network on the UK. Originally you had to be authorized to reach a destination there, and I'm not even sure that mail delivery was automated. Hopefully they have improved things in the past few years, since it's a pain to manually control gateways. I heard a story a few years ago from Alex Mckenzie at BBN who spent a long time one day setting up a connection to someone over in Scotland via Arpanet and several UK gateways. When he finally reached his destination the distant host replied with a message like "Today is our educators' strike, everybody stayed home today, and so should you!" The host then sent a close command, which merrily closed gateway connections all the way back to Massachusetts.