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Eric Thomas <ERIC@LEPICS> |
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Wed, 26 Jul 89 14:09:39 GMT |
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Your message of Wed, 26 Jul 89 01:52:18 +0200 |
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Thomas, what are you talking about? A piece of mail sent to
BOUNCE-L%ERRORBOX@yournode is, in most cases, delivered to
BOUNCE-L@yournode via NJE. Of course, there is a minority of BITNET nodes
and gateways which will transfer this note to your V2 mailer, which will
then send it to the proper place, but in most cases, this will land in
the reader of BOUNCE-L (which is 8 characters long). If the list was
ABC-L, it would be posted to the userid 'ABC-L%ER'. Now, how are you
going to handle that?
And, by the way. I have made up my mind on the business of giving 1.6a to
EARN. I am not spending any time on this. I am merely waiting for the
EARN officials to come back from vacations/wake up/remember their logon
passwords. Since that takes very little of my time, I spend the rest
playing cards while waiting for a VAX to stop telling me "Maximum number
of users exceeded, <censored> and die", or to compile/linkedit a 50-lines
PASCAL program (takes 30 minutes), or for DECNET to copy the executable
to another, dedicated VAX (the one on which we run the code -
unfortunately it can't do the compilation, as it doesn't have enough disk
space to store all the junk that this requires). My boss appears to hope
that we will be able to setup a fast link to that VAX with similar
performance as the one we developed for the Apollo workstations
(1Mbyte/sec disk-to-disk), using the same hardware. I doubt that the
dedicated VAX will ever be able to exceed the 280k/sec memory-to-memory
that we're getting today, but I've been told to try.
Eric
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