On Mon, 13 Apr 1992 10:56:21 EDT W. K. Gorman said: >I seem to be having increasing difficulty reaching ARMY.MIL and NAVY.MIL >subscribers on some of my lists. Connection seems to be intermittant >at best. For example, after unsubing one such address, having waded >through 20-30 bouncemail notices for that user, I got an anguished note >at my personal E-mail address asking "Why?". When I attempted to respond, >my (Reply) note also bounced. > There are LOTS of problems with .MIL addresses from our perspective too. Much of it seems to be related to the mailbridges. Recently they had to remove a lot of "foreign" networks from their tables because they had gotten too big. There are also occassional nameserver problems. > >How does one find out? > That is really a problem. Since we are on NSFNET we refer the tough cases to [log in to unmask] But I am not sure that is really their responsibility. I sure wish the MIL users had a reachable responsive help desk (like merit.edu). However, from the contacts I've had the mail users care about e-mail and some administrators do not. Marty