At 10:33 AM 3/30/96 -0600, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:

Sorry if it is an offtopic question... Has something happened with this mailing list? In the last two weeks I received only one article.

My system log indicates that no messages have been received by our machine.

When many of us at Netcom went a week without a feed, I tried to find out what was going on. The best explanation I could get was:\

From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com> Subject: Re: cipherpunk mail at Netcom.com To: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:18:44 -0500 (EST) Cc: stewards@ix.netcom.com Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]

The problem is toad.com is broken. It refuses to pass mail to an MX address, so it's hacked to ALWAYS pass mail to mail12.netcom.com, I think it is.

If it used MX's, it would be poll about 15 machines at netcom, until it found one accepting connections.

-- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

The following comment also applies:

X-Sender: stewarts@popd.ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 00:10:53 -0800 To: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz) From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Re: cipherpunk mail at Netcom.com

No denial of service attack involved; netcom and toad are slightly incompatible with each other and they do this every six months or so. Of course, I'd blame that on netcom :-) #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com / billstewart@attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs

If your problem is behaves the same as the one we at Netcom experienced, after about a week, it goes away and ALL the pending mail descends on your mail box. In my case it was over 1000 messages. Good Luck - Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Frantz | The CDA means | Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 | lost jobs and | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA