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Subject:    Re: [Outages-discussion] [outages] Long latency in receiving email
From:       "Mark E. Mallett" <mem () mv ! mv ! com>
Date:       2009-05-19 16:52:35
Message-ID: 20090519165235.GA93055 () osmium ! mv ! net
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On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 02:43:49PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> ----- "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 May 2009 09:19:23 CDT, Larry Sheldon said:
> > > When I saw this topic come up, I chuckled to my self: "yaknow, it was 
> > > not that long ago that we marveled that I could get an email from 
> > > Sausalito to College Park and an answer back in less time than the same 
> > > messages would take by US Mail."
> > 
> > bangpaths FTW! ;)
> 
> So, does anyone here remember therir last working bangpath?

I had to make one work just the other after having moved some UUCP
service from one system to another.  It was, though, only within the
local environment- someone was not getting an error message when a uux
process failed, because the default was to turn the address-to-reply-to
into a local bang path, and I had forgotten to make that work.

-mm- (yes, I still have to look at UUCP occasionally)

   -ex decvax!siia!mem
   -ex harvard!zinn!mem
   -ex cetera
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