On Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:48:42 CDT Natalie Maynor <[log in to unmask]> said: >I find using internet mail quicker and easier than using bitnet >interactive commands: the internet mail gets there faster; I don't have >to worry about whether the link is up; I believe we have already established a couple thousand times that your BITNET setup is screwed up and not representative. On a normal system, a TELL arrives within maybe 5 and at most 10 seconds, which is less than the time required by the few extra keystrokes you need for mail, plus the time for the user interface to start up, for the message to travel through the mailer into the SMTP process, and so on. >the response arrives as mail rather than hopping onto my screen in a >disruptive way. I believe it has already been mentioned that ancient operating systems *present* interactive messages to the user, rather than dumping the text to the terminal, wherever the cursor happened to be and without regard to whatever happened to be there. The conclusion is that BITNET is not an attractive network for a unix system with a low-quality RSCS emulator (actually, there is no quality RSCS emulator for unix) and the resulting screwed up setup. Maybe that is why unix sites only amount to 8% of the BITNET community. Eric