On Sat, 20  Mar 1993 07:54:56 CST  Natalie Maynor <[log in to unmask]>
said:
 
>Here's  my point,  though.  One reason  I'm very  glad  that our  bitnet
>address  is  not registered  with  bitnic  is that  I  do  NOT want  any
>important mail  coming to that address.  It is my understanding  that if
>the  equivalent addresses  were registered,  some  of my  mail would  be
>diverted to my bitnet address against my will.
 
But this is not correct. Or rather,  it is not correct as far as LISTSERV
is concerned. There are some 3500  systems on BITNET with a corresponding
amount of system administrators and nobody  can say for sure that none of
them is going  to use this information in an  inappropriate way. LISTSERV
will use it for topological routing, but will ultimately deliver with the
address you gave.  It would just know  that you're closer to  UGA than to
any other server.  This would make your  mail go via UGA  even though the
sending site might be on the east coast or whatever. I suppose Melvin was
being particularly  exclamative because  he was  tired of  explaining the
same thing over and over.
 
>Let's assume that I had been using [log in to unmask] Thursday
 
But you didn't.  If you had Melvin wouldn't have  mentioned the :internet
tag.
 
>I readily admit that I am  a non-techy who knows nothing about technical
>matters. I do know that there  was jubilation on WORDS-L yesterday, when
>several people noticed that their list  mail had started coming from UGA
>again instead of from PUCC and that it was arriving promptly.
 
Which brings us back to what I  keep telling you, you have not solved the
problem and  since mail from  lists not located at  UGA or its  region is
still going through Princeton, you are still affected.
 
If you are really  so unhappy about the service you get  from all but the
UGA INTERBIT, why don't you register  UGA as the gateway for .MSSTATE.EDU
after getting permission from Harold?
 
  Eric