Correction for Pur-ee mail address

utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!pur-ee!aef utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!pur-ee!aef
Wed Jul 22 02:44:45 AEST 1981


Due to the long path news from the ARPANET takes to get to most of the
UUCP only USENET sites, and since netnews usually takes 2-3 days
through the net to get to us, we have been unable to respond until this
point about mistakes on how to get mail to Peter Hallenbeck here at
Purdue's EE Department (for information about 680x assemblers).

Mike (Mo at LBL-UNIX) was correct in saying that the EE department is
"pur-ee" (as an earlier NET.general USENET announcement stated) but
Pete's login here is "wa1yyn" not "peter" as was stated.  Login "peter"
was set up as an alias to Peter Kessler at ucbvax (maintainer of
Berkeley's pc), so any mail sent as Mo stated will get turned around
and sent to him instead!  Thus, if you sent mail to Pete Hallenbeck as
stated, you will have to resend the message as it was not received by
Pete here.

Sorry for the inconvienence this may have caused you, and also Peter
Kessler (ucbvax!peter).

This situation continues to bring up the problem of incompatibilities
of ARPANET verses UUCP netnews.  One is almost instantaneous, while the
other may be several days behind.  This is particularly true in our
case since our netnews comes via cincy who is only a "part-time" UNIX
system, and must rely on hand dialing and getting through to "duke" to
get any of the news.  Perhaps we need more reliable connections to
ARPANET as well as better UUCP netnews connections.  Any volunteers?

		Art Feather (pur-ee!aef)




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