From:	Paul Gettle <RunnerPaul@*****.COM>
Subject:	Re: New list
Date:	Tue, 2 Feb 1999 10:59:07 -0500

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At 07:02 AM 2/1/99 -0400, Scott wrote:
> Hmmm....I can't send to the new list. I get "Undeliverable Mail"
>and then this message:
>
>Your message was not delivered because the DNS records for the
>destination computer could not be found.

<<Snip>>

> What's the problem? I'm not unsubscribed, 'cause I still get
>what others write (I think).

Alright. How did you subscribe in the first place? Did you send in an
email from the same place that you're using now? Or did you use the
website form?

And the big question: Did you follow that set of instructons that
someone had posted, about changing certain settings on your computer,
in order to subscribe, and have you since changed those settings back?

Today's internet lesson: internet routers don't give a damn about
human readable addresses, like lists.html.com. To the computers, the
only things that count as an "internet address" are a long sequence of
numbers.

To keep things simple for the users, a system of "Domain Names" was
put in place. Whenever you put in a human readable domain name into
the computer, no matter if it's in an email or into a web browser or
anything else, that name has to be looked up in the DNS tables to find
the corisponding numerical address, much the same way someone would
look up a pizza joint in the phone book.

What the problem is, is that "lists.html.com" is a newly opened pizza
joint, and because of that, the listing isn't in everybody's "phone
book" yet. The "new phone books" are delivered across the net
automatically, however this process takes a few days to reach
everyone.

In your particular case Scott, somewhere along the chain of
mailservers between you and the list, someone's "phone book" doesn't
have a listing for "lists.html.com". However, everyone's "phone book"
has a listing for nbnet.nb.ca, which is why the listmail can find it's
way to you just fine.

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