Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Curious about Jack's flame over First Class, I asked a friend who knows better than I about the problem assigned to First Class. Here was his response: ----forward---- The problem IS NOT with FirstClass it is with a poorly implemented third part gateway for it. FirstClass does work well with newsgroups using a more stable gateway. FirstClass servers run under MacOS and Windows NT while the client software runs under MacOS and Windows 3.11(since 1991!) and Win95. It is unfortunate that some people submit mis-informed views of the product. First Class is the fourth largest E-mail package in the world with more than 4 million installed users. ----end of forward--- Cheers, Blair >gthrall@ix.netcom.com (Glenn Wm. Thrall) wrote: >> I've been getting the following "could not be delivered" note when >> sending mail to the Leica List. This is a sample. Nothing has changed >> at my end. Any ideas, or just the hot weather? >> Or, it could just as well be NetCom! > >>> From: Mailer-Daemon@learnnet.nt.ca (Mailer-Daemon) >>> Organization: North of 60 BBS >>> Subject: NDN: Re: Case for M6 >>> To: gthrall@ix.netcom.com >>> Message-ID: <-1376053246.ensmtp@learnnet.nt.ca> > >It's not Netcom's fault. "North of 60 BBS" is using FirstClass, a bozoid >bulletin-board system (for Macintoshes only, I think) which can also connect >to Usenet and Internet-based email services. It has a bug in it (which its >implementers refuse to fix despite having been told about it years ago) which >sporadically sends these garbage messages to everyone who posts to a Usenet >newsgroup: or, it seems, an email digest. > >This has gone well past the point of sending polite messages to sysadmins >(not least because any attempt to email the sysadmin will just give you >another "NDN" message back); mailbomb the bastards, make obscene phone calls >to them 3am, ask their feed site to cut them off, and above all do your level >best to ensure that First Class vanishes from the face of the planet as soon >as possible. > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >jack@purr.demon.co.uk - Jack Campin, 2 Haddington Place, Edinburgh EH7 4AE