BITNET mail

[Jordan Hayes]

There are still a lot of people out there on the Internet trying to use
ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU as a BITNET gateway ... pretty anti-social,
if you ask me. Check your mailing lists and mailer configurations
today. Thanks.

/jordan

[Henry Mensch]

In article <50...@brl-smoke.ARPA> jor...@ucb-vax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes) writes:
>There are still a lot of people out there on the Internet trying to use
>ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU as a BITNET gateway ...

For those who don't know, the bitnet gateway for the Internet is
wiscvm.wisc.edu. This means that mail to bitnet users should be
addressed as follows:

user%bithost...@wiscvm.wisc.edu

An example:

S19984%MITVMA...@wiscvm.wisc.edu

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[Martin Schoffstall]

I don't know what INTERNET people use (we use wiscvm.wisc.edu)
but I DO see BITNET people use violet.berkeley.edu when they
want to mail to the INTERNET. Isn't this antisocial too?

Marty

[L.H. Landweber]

While it may anti-social to use bitnet/internet gateways other than wiscvm,
it certainly is rational. Each weekday we fall behind hundreds of messages
due to arpanet congestion. (We sit at one end of the most congested line
in the Arpanet.) Most of the time these are cleared on the weekend,
but if something goes wrong at that time, large numbers of messages may
be lost (or returned to sender).

This week i will send out an announcement that at some future date
we will limit the number of copies of a single
message that wiscvm will relay. We will expect list
maintainers to contact someone on the other net to set up exploders.
We have offers from some to help and details will be forthcoming.
At present well over 50% of our traffic is due to mulitple copies
from lists on both sides. Hopefully, the above change will fix or at
least ease the current problem.

Larry Landweber