Aucbvax.1613 NET.news utzoo!duke!mhtsa!eagle!ucbvax!mark Wed Jun 10 21:48:55 1981 Re: Writing to ARPAnet digests What happens when a new uucp site comes up that is also on the arpanet? One of the vaxen here on campus will (hopefully soon) be uucp'd with nprdc. This is beginning to happen a lot - there are currently a bunch of sites running both arpanet and uucp (lbl-unix, sri-unix, ucla-security, rand-unix) and we expect more to follow (our arpavax, nprdc, Shasta [at Stanford], and possibly something with CSNET.) At least one of these sites is already a gateway for arpa-uucp mail, and several are seriously considering it. With this many gateways it should be reasonable to keep the traffic levels through any one site quite reasonable. I'm not announcing which site yet because I am not completely clear on their policy, and I don't want to flood them with mail unexpectedly. They are also still having enough bugs that a high volume of mail would probably only get in the way. It would be real nice if I could announce a SET of at least 3 gateways at the same time, to avoid branding any one as the "default". Should all `ta.*' stuff go through ucbvax or can it go to other uucp<-->arpanet machines? There is already far too much traffic through ucbvax. I would welcome the offer from any other site to be the one that ta.* goes through to get to the arpanet. However, this may soon be moot with gateways springing up, since ordinary mail could once again be sent to the mailing list. Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.