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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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