From nowhere at bsu-cs.bsu.edu  Tue Jul 13 11:14:15 1993
From: nowhere at bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Chael Hall)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 11:14:15 PDT
Subject: Remailer test
In-Reply-To: <199307121310.AA20979@Menudo.UH.EDU>
Message-ID: <9307131813.AA22955@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>



>M..Stirner at f28.n125.z1.fidonet.org (M. Stirner) wrote
>
>> I received the test message via the remailer at utter.dis.org quickly &
>> without problems.  I have yet to get the other messages, nearly a week
>> later.  With the exception of remailer at utter.dis.org, all of these have
>> been habitually unresponsive to regular tests.  I have been able to get
>> the soda remaier to work once, & with the efforts of the remailer
>> operator, was able to get the phantom remailer to work once.
>
>Hm...something funny is going on here.  I test the remailers about
>once every other week and generally here from all of them!  Can I try
>sending mail to you through each remailer?  Maybe this will help
>figure out the ones which can't reach you. 
>
>> Which remailers claim to be able to mail directly to newsgroups?
>
>As far as I know, none of the remailers mail directly to newsgroups.
>But, you can have them remail to an email-to-usenet gateway like
>group-name at cs.utexas.edu.  There are others (pws.bull.com, decwrl's,
>demon); I'll find my list and send it.

     I have always had difficulty sending directly to Fidonet...  If
you send to username%f1.n2.z3.fidonet.org at gator.rn.com it will usually
go through, though.  So by sending it through the remailer, then gator,
then Fidonet, it should go.

Chael

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