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Aucbvax.2858 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Sat Aug 29 10:17:34 1981

>From SomeoneOnUUCP@Berkeley Sat Aug 29 10:11:46 1981 Originating from purdue at Fri Aug 28 09:31:34 1981 To: pur-ee!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Subject: 'Automagic forwarding of unix-wizards'

It doesn't always work, folks! Last week, I think I submitted 5 letters to ucbvax!unix-wizards, and got each one of them back the very next day, saying 'service unavailable'. Depending on the message, I either shipped it back right away, or just put it in net.general, in disgust.

While I realize that ucbvax is doing us a service by providing a gateway, and I find the Arpa news digest quite useful, I think we should be able to do better. Quite a while ago I submitted a flame about this (which seemingly disappeared into the bit bucket somewhere) where I basically called on someone on the east coast or in the midwest to come on line as another Arpa gateway. Then we could split the Arpa/UUCP net in half, and balance the traffic between the two. What would be nice is if about five gateways would show up at once, so no one would get the shaft. Chris Kent (purdue!cak)

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