From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 22:32:33 +0800
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: What happened with Cypherpunks?
Message-ID: <199603310718.XAA27085@netcom9.netcom.com>
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>Bill Frantz writes:
>> When many of us at Netcom went a week without a feed, I tried to find out
>> what was going on.  The best explanation I could get was:\
>> 
>> >From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
>> >
>> >The problem is toad.com is broken.
>> >It refuses to pass mail to an MX address,
>
>Huh? I get my cypherpunks mail via an MX. Besides, the thing is
>running sendmail, which uses MX records.
>
>.pm

What I posted is what I received.  They were the ONLY explanation(s) I
received of a cause for the problem.  My understanding of RFC822 and
descendants is not good enough to offer a critique, but I do know that my,
and a number of my friends toad.com feed was constipated for a week until
the Exlax came thru.  If you have a better explanation of what happened, I
would be delighted to receive it.  (BTW - I have notes from a number of
non-Netcom subscribers who report no problems during the effected time.)

Regards - Bill


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