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McMaster Univ. joins USENET

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Peter Blake

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Oct 10, 1986, 2:45:12 PM10/10/86
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Name of site.
maccs
What the site is all about.
Dept. of Computer Science and Systems

Name of contact person at site.
Peter Blake or Chris Bryce
Electronic mail address of contact person.
maccs!usenet
Canadian Mail address of contact person.
McMaster University
Dept. of Computer Science and Systems
1280 Main St. West
Hamiliton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4K1
Phone number of contact person.
(416) 525-9140 x4614

Systems with whom news articles are exchanged.
(what kind of link, who the neighbor(s) are).
genat(HOURLY) -- direct
methods(POLLED) -- direct

Systems with whom mail is exchanged.
(what kind of link, who the neighbor(s) are, what frequency
of connection, whether or not you'll pass outside mail along).
genat - UUCP, direct, we poll (or try to) them every hour
methods - UUCP, direct, they poll us about every hour
We are willing to pass mail along.

Willingness (or lack thereof) to connect to new sites that
want to join usenet. If you run uucp, tell if new sites can
call you, if you will poll them, what your policy is.
If on the arpanet, are you willing to forward news on to new
sites by establishing an arpanet usenet connection?
- We are willing to connect to any sites within the Hamilton
and neighboring areas.
- New sites can call us, via uucp.
- We are not an arpanet site.


#N maccs
#S DEC VAX 11/780; 4.2bsd Unix
#O Dept. Computer Science and Systems, McMaster University
#C Peter Blake or Chris Bryce
#E maccs!usenet
#T +1 416 525 9140 x4614
#P 1280 Main St. W, Hamilton, Ont., Canada, L8S 4K1
#L 43 16 N / 79 55 W
#R
#U genat methods
#W maccs!petey (Peter Blake); Tue Oct 10 14:45:07 EDT 1986
#
maccs genat(HOURLY), # News and mail feed
methods(POLLED) # downstream news feed

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