3.1212 e-mail (47)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Sun, 25 Mar 90 18:03:38 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1212. Sunday, 25 Mar 1990.


(1) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 90 10:28 GMT (20 lines)
From: KLCOPE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK
Subject: BITNET and EARN Formats and Hasty Belief of Network Propaganda!

(2) Date: 24 March 1990, 20:09:54 EDT (7 lines)
From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB
Subject: strange thing about e-mail

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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 90 10:28 GMT
From: KLCOPE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK
Subject: BITNET and EARN Formats and Hasty Belief of Network Propaganda!

In a recent well-conceived grammo, one correspondent answers a question
relating to Spanish e-mail addresses with the comment that EARN addresses
conform to the BITNET standard. This may be true, but I fear that the
advice is misleading, although, of course, not intentionally so.
Oxford University is an EARN node, replete with a quasi-BITNETian
address. Unfortunately, most people in north America cannot reach it,
or for that matter an other EARN node, wiothout using special address
formulae filled with "%" and "@" and "!" partions (as if to simulate
swearing at the @#&%$@ machine!) in order to command their machines to
call the EARN gateway. Persons who simply send to an EARN address are
likely to find their mail going into oblivion with absolutely NO report
of a delivery failure! This could break up more than a few friendships
when the person on the EARN ends seems not to respond to correspondence
(having, of course, not received any)! So do be careful, and get instructions
from your computer center prior to sending to any EARN address. Believe
me, I've learned the hard way! KLC
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Date: 24 March 1990, 20:09:54 EDT
From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB

Another strange thing about e-mail: you read a message quickly, save it
somewhere, then figure out that you only remember half of it and there
was something important in the other half. Good thing you saved it, but
where? Cheers, Roy