What irks me about Unix mail

[Henry Spencer]

> ... Most of the time, when I do this I get a message from
> some program (you never know on Unix where messages come from) telling
> me that the destination was unreachable. ...
> 
> ... On VMS I know as
> soon as I get the prompt for Subject that the destination is reachable.

Welcome to the world of real networking, where one cannot assume that a
specific program (your mailer) on a specific machine (your host) knows
everything about the network.  "It just ain't that simple no more."
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry