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Date:      Thu, 1 Jun 1995 13:20:59 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        dawes@physics.usyd.edu.au, jmb@kryten.atinc.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mailing lists
Message-ID:  <199506010320.NAA17838@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>> I've noticed for a while now that the mail I receive from hackers comes
>>> via munnari.oz.au rather than directly from freefall.  When I looked
>>> into this, I found that mail I sent to myself from freefall (both to
>>> here and to a few other domains in .au) also came via munnari.  I'd
>>> assumed that this was setup to allow all mailing list traffic to
>>> .au to go from one connection from freefall.  Was this intentional?  Do

Yes, it was to get the foreign site to do more of the work.

>>> others in .au see this?  We certainly don't have an MX pointing to that
>>> site.  The down side of this from my point of view is that
>>> munnari.oz.au often has a long mail queue, and it isn't unusual for the
>>
>>strange the mail logs on freefall show:

I complained about this too.  munnari often delayed 12-24 hours and I
got direct replies to some of my mail before I got the indirect echo
from freefall via munnari.

>It looks like it is back to delivering directly.  I must admit that I

It was stopped when the big relay sites (ENUNET ...) complained.

Bruce



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