[832] in testers
Re: sending mail causes me to lose contact with my server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon May 21 21:44:46 1990
From: marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: John F Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, Jeff Tang <jefft@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: afsreq@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [831] in testers
Reply-To: marc@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 21 May 90 21:44:30 EDT
>> Logged into smash, which seems to be running 7.0D, I've been trying to
>> send mail using emacs mh-rmail.
>>
>> 4 times in a row, I hit c-c c-c and each time, I lost contact with my
>> server(Artemis). It came back up after about two minutes.
(quoted for the benefit of afsreq)
IMHO, the athena cell should be updated ASAP. Although normal users
won't really be affected by the problem, those of us who are slightly
more special can't use 7.0 as is. Even if most of the people running
the athena cell use RMAIL, mh is the supported mail system at athena.
Richard babbled something about waiting until after graduation.
That's two weeks until I will even consider updating my testers'
machine. This seems really wrong.
The people in charge cannot continue saying "AFS isn't officially
supported" and "we can't do that now because users need it" at the
same time. AFS is either experimental or in use. At this point in
time, enough depends on AFS that I think it has stopped being
experimental.
Marc
