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On Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:21:54 -0400 Roger Burns <[log in to unmask]>
said:
>A problem had been mentioned a couple of months ago about how the new
>1.8b spam control may also lock out entire Usenet news gateways. Has
>there been any progress in modifying the spam control to prevent this
>from happening?
The spam control will not be modified to prevent this problem because it
is specific to this particular gateway, which is running on a VM system
that is being phased out. LISTSERV@AUVM has already been migrated to a
unix machine and they have also left BITNET. The replacement gateway will
probably run on a unix system and thus will not run the same software. In
other words, by the time the new version is out and people have installed
it, the problem will be gone. You see, July is when US universities place
half of their orders and want their yearly maintenance to expire.
Universities generally want to issue a new PO explicitly every year and
don't want to commit to more than a year at a time, so 90% of academic
sites are without maintenance between June 30 and whenever their
purchasing department issues the new PO. We send them notices 5 weeks in
advance but most of them, being state owned or state funded, are legally
not allowed to cut POs (or even promise to cut one) on the new fiscal
year's budget before July 1. So, there is no mechanism to avoid this
hiatus, and due to the volume of orders it can take over a month to get
the PO. On top of that, the transition from CREN to L-Soft maintenance is
confusing some of the purchase officers and we keep having to clarify
things and demonstrate that CREN isn't a second source of L-Soft
maintenance any more that local regulations would force them to include
in a competitive bid. And in 11 days, the EARN contract will expire and
Terena hasn't yet announced the new agreement, which will require each
university to pay individually. The bottom line is that it will probably
be September before most of the backbone is again under maintenance.
Eric
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