From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: calling Dale Lally
Date: 12 Dec 92 07:06:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: CompuData Inc.

Again I'm sorry to be posting here.  But I'm simply unable to reach the
author/translator of the Ohio German-American history published by Heritage
Press any other way.

Am I the only one who has all this trouble with bitnet sites.  He seems to be
able to write me fine and a trace of the headers shows that he does exist.  It
even says below that the recipient is OK, but then it spits the no local user
message at me.  What gives?

I might as well explain what this is about.  Dale Lally informed us here of
the availability of his translation.  I immediately ordered the book and
Heritage charged my credit card.  I'm slightly peeved at the publisher because
they just sent me a receipt promising delivery in March.  That will be almost
five months after taking my money.

Dale has nothing to do with this, but I would like to continue a dialog about
other things and would like to get this addressing business straight.

Dale, if you see this please show this to your responsible computer person or 
systems manager who might be able to tell me or you what's wrong and fix it.

Fred



> Subject:  mail delivery error
>
> Batch SMTP transaction log follows:
>
> 220 CUNYVM.BITNET Columbia MAILER R2.08 BSMTP service ready.
> 050 HELO CUNYVM
> 250 CUNYVM.BITNET Hello CUNYVM
> 050 MAIL FROM:<cdin-1!cdis-1.compu.com!fred@dsinc.dsi.com>
> 250 <cdin-1!cdis-1.compu.com!fred@dsinc.dsi.com>...  sender OK.
> 050 RCPT TO:<DLALLY@CUNYVM>
> 250 <DLALLY@CUNYVM>...  recipient OK.
> 050 DATA
> 354 Start mail input.  End with <crlf>.<crlf>
> 554-Mail not delivered to some or all recipients:
> 554 No such local user:  DLALLY
> 050 QUIT
> 221 CUNYVM.BITNET Columbia MAILER BSMTP service done.
>
> Original message follows:
>
> Subject:  Re:  German-American History
> To:  DLALLY%STLAWU.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
> Date:  Mon, 7 Dec 92 0:13:05 EST
> From:  W.  Fred Rump <fred@cdis-1.compu.com>
> In-Reply-To:  <m0mxrBe-0008WxC@dsinc.dsi.com>; from
> "DLALLY%STLAWU.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu" at Dec 04, 92 11:22 pm
> X-Mailer:  ELM [version 2.2 PL16]
> Message-ID:  <1TA04B1@cdis-1.compu.com>
>
> > Believe me, the publisher did not tell me much of anything about
publishing
> > runs or deadlines.  One day, out of the clear blue sky, I received my
copy.
> > In a way, I guess I blew it, making a premature announcement (albeit
> > unknowingly).  I am going to wait for the next publishing run before
> > making any more smoke about the book.  BTW, Tolzmann & I are looking
around
> > for more interesting books to translate.  Got any suggestions?
>
> Dale, I'm not blaming you.  I'm just saying that the people (Heritage) are
not
> very honorable business folks to take money now and deliver later.
>
> Such practices would not work anywhere else and I wonder if they are not an
> aberration in the publishing industry.
>
> Please tell me what is involved in translating a book.  Does one need
> permission of the original publishers?  The authors?  Who?
>
> I read this wonderful book called:  Artland - Amerika - Asien one day last
> week.  It is a contemporary account of a visit to America in 1878 from a
> farmer in Germany and a brief report of a young and disowned minor nobleman
> (Freiherr von Dinklage) as to his travails in Asia.  The latter would not be
> genealogically interresting but the former is because he lists so many
people
> whose descendants live in the US today.

> Fred


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