24 Jan
2022
24 Jan
'22
9:01 p.m.
First of all, only subscribed users are allowed to post on the HECnet
list. That have basically removed all spam. (That, in combination with
me manually approving any subscription.)
As for subscribing from a machine on HECnet. There is no need to know
anything about any owners of any area routers. All you need is to
subscribe using the address you want to be subscribed from.
You can send a mail requesting to be subscribed, or add on the web page.
Either will work.
Johnny
On 2022-01-24 20:26, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
Yes, connectivity issues could be a problem. I would
assume that, at a
minimum, you'd have to know the email address of the person responsible
for the area router. And Johnny's...
Regarding the email itself, what could happen is that the Internet email
gateway could forward the email to an alias on whatever machine was
doing the DECnet forwarding.
To take the only example that I can remember well, the Tops-20-Wizards
mailing list on SU-SCORE had a large list of subscribers. One such
member was Tops-20-Wizards(a)CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU.#Internet. Entries in
that list (on CU20B) had some members like GG(a)CUCHEM.#DECnet, which was
the system administrator on Columbia's Chemistry department's VAX, at
the time which did not have either TCP/IP or SMTP. CU20B (and any 20)
can convert to and from VAXmail format. I think it's actually called MAIL11.
It's completely unremarkable, doable and it handled a rather large
amount of traffic without a lot of tinkering. One nice thing about
DECnet based SMTP/MAIL11 transport could be that your chances of getting
spammed on HECnet are probably *a lot* lower.
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt(a)softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
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On 1/24/22 2:11 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
Is there any precedent for subscribing to the mailing list with a
HECnet mail gateway address, and reading the traffic under VMS MAIL?
One of the downsides would be loss of access to the list exactly when
asking for HECnet debugging help, of course.
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