Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 7 Feb 1997 20:00:04 +0200 (GMT+0200) | From | Peter K <> | Subject | Re: CROSSPOSTED: why is vger bouncing mail off funet? |
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On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Cameron MacKinnon wrote:
> > I'm subscribed to kernel and smp, and just noticed that the listserver > at Rutgers is bouncing all mail bound for me off nic.funet.fi. Is this > normal? Is this sane? Canada's where I am, and I'm better connected to > the US than Finland, I think! I subscribed via Majordomo at vger, and > its been like this since I subscribed in early December.
nic.funet.fi is but one of the exploders for the various linux lists (Our domain explodes for Africa and a couple of other countries). Actually the traffic on the various lists is rather horrendous and instead of having poor vger resend every mail posted to each relevant subscriber, it sends a mailheader-modified message to various exploders around the world to distribute on its behalf.
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