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Subject: Re: Overseas connection - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 5-Jun-83 18:06:44 EDT
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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.