Aucbvax.2842
fa.unix-wizards
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards
Thu Aug 27 23:02:49 1981
ARPAnet access
>From geoff Thu Aug 27 23:02:42 1981
Ucbvax is currently set up such that if you, as a UUCPnet (Usenet) user,
send mail to "...!ucbvax!unix-wizards", the message will be *automatically*
forwarded to unix-wizards@sri-unix (via our internal network and then via
the ARPAnet). The message is then redistributed by sri-unix to all sites
on their "master" list, which should include "CSVAX.post-unix-wizards@Berkeley".
When we, at Berkeley, receive something addressed to this rather baroque-
looking recipient, it is handed to our network news program. From there,
the message is redistributed via UUCPnet to the rest of the world. Glub.
Thus, ARPAnet access is transparent FOR TRAFFIC TO AND FROM THE LIST.
ARPAnet access is not available (at least through Berkeley) for "private
communications", which would include someone on the UUCPnet attempting to
respond to an INDIVIDUAL who submitted something via the ARPAnet, or vice
versa.
I am explaining this only as a lowly user (admittedly one at the current
ARPAnet <=> UUCPnet gateway) who is becoming bored by all of these messages
which request manual forwarding of messages to the ARPAnet, and...
[By the way, only UUCPnet unix-wizards readers will see this message.]
Geoff Peck
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