#: 3401 S10/Tandy CoCo
    10-May-90  17:46:20
Sb: #3388-#CoCo List
Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
To: Randy Wilson 71561,756 (X)

Randy,

It very well could be that the LISTSERV was down at those times. Many of the
Bitnet lists run on university computers, and lots of those shut down on
weekends, especially sunday. As Steve mentioned, you should have received an
acknowledgement to your SUBSCRIBE command. Most of the Bitnet (and any other
Internet type nets) run in real time, but response times are some times
incredibly slow. So when you send your message to the list, it gets sent
immediately, but may takes hours to get there, depending on how long each
intermediate node hangs on to the message before it passes it on, or, in some
cases, an intermediate node is down and the message is held until that node is
back up again. Its also possible the message went into the twilight zone, never
to be seen again! (Seriously, internet "protocol" says that a message does not
have to be, and may not be, delivered to its destination and can be summarily
dumped at any point along the way).

Bill

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