Does anyone have the dial-up (2400 baud) for Arbornet?  How about voice phone?
I finally got into Usenet News at MSU just now after being locked out, even at
3:am for 4  or so days.  Lauchpad isn't totally reliable, and is s l o w.
Time to be an Arbornut!

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Why I'm actually encouraging anyone to use M-Net, I don't know...
I have 994-6333 and 996-4644 as their phone numbers.

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I haven't used M-Net in months, and even before that I was telnetting
there rather than dialing in, but if I'm remembering correctly 996-4644 is
the beginning of their trunk hunt.  You can also telnet to
m-net148.arbonet.org.

Does anyone know the name of the ArborNet officer who uses Grex?  I mean his
log-in name, so I can mail him.  I tried to establish an account, and I think
something got screwed up.  I don't want to just abandon my chi1taxi name.
Thanks-

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Once again Valaaarie to the rescue.  Thanks.

  
It is much better (although not intuitive) to 
eamil to   rotts@arbornet.org   since the plural
gets better fand faster distributio ...
  
the phone numbers are right - and remember 
that the other b0x is 8-N-1 and High speed
and v.32...v.42bis compliant).
  

Phew - after getting blasted off the link. ... got back to correct
the above resonse - theytypo (rotts) should
have been to email to
  
   roots@arbornet.org
  
damn link-lag-lucky this time ...
 ... hmmm, wonder how long the delay before rec0nnect was ...

Also, the easier to type version of M-net's address is m-net.arbornet.org.
I'm not sure why anyone uses m-net148.arbornet.org.  

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That was my experience, for a guest connection.

I think that from most places m-net.arbornet.org will be interpreted as
M-Net's link to Msen.  However, from some places, like Grex or anywhere at
the University of Michigan (in other words, just about anywhere I ever
telnet from), M-Net's Merit connection is seen as the closer route, and is
treated as the default.  M-Net's Merit connection is 9600 bps, and only
allows one guest user at a time.  That's why some of us have to type
m-net148.arbornet.org to get there.

Thank you.  Now, what's the point in telnetting to grex.cyberspace.org
rather than cyberspace.org?  

Some people just like to type.

One day it might be necessary. It's academic today.

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Cool.

Actually <the nitpicker sees his opportunity, and strikes!> there are
two hosts in the cyberspace.org domain, but all mail sent to
cyberspace.org is directed to grex.cyberspace.org.

Well, now you've piqued my curiousity - Can gryps.cyberspace.org
receive mail?

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Well, you could *try* mailing postmaster@gryps.cyberspace.org & see if it
bounces ... but I think that if I were the postmaster who got it (either
the successful delivery or the bounce copy) I would start dreaming of
revenge.  I suspect we get a *lot* of traffic to postmaster these days.

gryps is just a router; it will refuse mail if you try to send it to
there directly.  Actually, mail to gryps is routed to grex, but grex
doesn't understand that it's supposed to process grpys mail, and will
drop it on the floor.

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