From: jjmcwill@mtu.edu (Jeff McWilliams)
Subject: FAQ vs C.S.A.8.
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 02:30:28 GMT


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Subject: FAQ vs. CSA8/Berkeley Com Problems
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[Jeff, please forward to the csa8 newsgroup, thanks!]

This one is for Michael Current.

In the recently posted FAQ list you state:

"To contribute to the Info-Atari8 Digest, send your posting to comp-sys-atari-
8bit@....
Please note: there is NEVER a good reason to to send anything to the address
Info-Atari8@naucse.... "

Well Michael I must take exception to that.  It was good advice up until the
first week of November.  After 2 years of active participation in this news-
group, during the first week of Nov. all my postings to csa8 suddenly started
bouncing.  Notice I don't put in much appearance here lately?  A few folks
have even wondered where I've been lately, & guys like Jeff McWilliams have
sorta been standing in for me.

When the problems began I wasted a lot of time with sysadmins at my end, as I
thought the sudden disruption had something to do with yet another of the
endless rounds of "upgrades" these people are always doing here (sometimes
with disastrous results).  Eventually I found someone here who was halfway
competent who demonstrated to my satisfaction the problem wasn't at my site.

I sent an e-mail inquiry to the Postmaster at Berkeley about the problem.  Those
bums took like 2 weeks to reply.  There story was that they had taken some
disk drives offline & reallocated them to other use which had apparently been
employed in retransmitting Internet messages sent to csa8 back out onto USENET.
They informed me in a kind of terse, cryptic style that c-s-a-8 was for "local"
users only.  I'm in Pennsylvania, 3,000 miles away, I guess that's not "local".
So outside of a certain geographical radius, Berkeley has cut off all the non-
locals like me.  I'm reduced to being able to read the Digest on Internet
without being able to respond.  The frustration has given way to depression.

So, if we aren't to send messages to IA8 (only the Internet people see them if
you do), just WHERE should we now send our responses if Berkely isn't going to
forward stuff to USENET any more?

Thus my exception to the statement "there"s NEVER a good reason to send to
Info-Atari8...".  Well, *I* have a good reason: Berkeley has cut me off & now
bounces everything I send to c-s-a-8.  I'm sure I'm not the only person
affected by this.  Any hope of someone setting those Berkely people straight
& letting us "non-locals" post again?  Or, is there some other address we can
use that will cross-post to USENET like Berkeley did?

I really HATE this feeling of isolation.

     - BEN POEHLAND
       The Alchemist
       Managing Editor, ATARI CLASSICS Magazine
       poehland%phvax.dnet@smithkline.com

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