Aucbvax.2129 fa.info-terms utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!info-terms Mon Jul 6 00:59:17 1981 >From JSOL@MIT-MC Mon Jul 6 00:46:51 1981 Date: 5 Jul 1981 14:54:46-PDT From: CSVAX.mark at Berkeley To: info-terms@mit-mc, unix-wizards@sri-unix Subject: mail loop I'd like to publicly apologize for the mail loop that got started yesterday. I can't go through all your mailboxes and get rid of the mail which you no doubt waded through to get to this one. I have broken the loop and will take a different approach to solving the problem, an approach which is considerably less dangerous. The problem was that people on Usenet were unable to reply to or participate in discussions on the arpanet, due to the restrictions on the gateway between uucp and arpa nets. Some mail was allowed through, but much of it was being rejected. I was trying to arrange that articles posted on the usenet newsgroups got sent to the mailing lists on the arpanet. (As you can see from the second loop message, many people on Usenet assumed that this was already the case.) The solution being adopted now will not present as orthogonal a user interface as the first one - people will have to mail to such addresses as ucbvax!info-terms rather than posting on newsgroup fa.info-terms, but it will be less dangerous, and usenet will only get one copy of each article instead of two. Sorry again for all the extra mail. Mark Horton U.C. Berkeley  ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.