Date   : Wed, 14 Jan 1987 19:59:55 EST
From   : David Towson (SECAD) <towson@brl.arpa>
Subject: New distribution machine for info-cpm:

Fellow CP/Mers - It took a long time for the Army Materiel Systems Analysis
Activity (AMSAA) to start using computers en masse, but it has definitely
happened now.  The word has gotten around that text preparation and written
communication via computer are really slick, and the whole mob seems to have
gotten accounts.  As a result, the poor old AMSAA VAX has been loaded down to
a crawl lately.  For those of you who dig UNIX load factors, I saw it hit 24
for a while today!

     To cut themselves some slack, AMSAA have just installed the "super-
screamer" of the Gould 9000 series.  It has two processors, a hardware
multiply accelerator and 16 megs of main memory, and it is called

                               AMSAA-SEER

That's "see-er", as in "forteller of the future", a bit of a jab at the
business AMSAA is in - systems analysis.

     At the present time, human inertia is keeping most people on the VAX,
even though you sometimes have to wait quite a while for keystrike echos and
anything else you would like to happen fast.  So I have decided to remove a
small bit of the load from the poor old VAX, and at the same time speed-up the
handling of this list.  I have moved the list to SEER.

     Now for the (maybe) bad news:  We are running some new mail software
here.  In keeping with the current thinking and policy regarding network
address handling, the new mail system is heavily dependent on a "name server"
(another computer that knows all about host addresses).  When the name server
or the software that interacts with it screws-up, you would be amazed (if you
haven't seen it) how completely disgusting things can get.  To make things a
bit worse, the folks who have to fix these problems (with maybe one or two
exceptions) are just learning about all this good stuff, so we are all
scratching our heads together.

     Anyhow, it seems to be working now, so I have taken the plunge and moved
the list.


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FROM NOW ON, PLEASE ADDRESS ALL INFO-CPM MAIL TO:

                       info-cpm@amsaa-seer.arpa

And send mail dealing with list maintenance (additions, deletions, etc.) to:

                   info-cpm-request@amsaa-seer.arpa


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     Mail sent to the old "amsaa.arpa" address will still go where it should,
but it will take longer because it will have to bounce off the VAX.  Please
report any problems that seem to be related to this change to BOTH of the
following addresses:

                       Dave Towson <towson@amsaa.arpa>
 and
                       info-cpm-request@amsaa-seer.arpa

(By the way, I'm sending this message from BRL-AOS as yet another check on the
performance of the mail system.)



Dave Towson
info-cpm list maintainer