October 1995

>From time to time, you may receive objectionable postings to your list or to you as owner (or as an individual). Syracuse University Computing & Media Services does not tolerate such activity, and will take any steps available to us to terminate such activity. Some things we already do- for example, we license the Lsoft Listserv software which has the best (though not perfect) tools on the market for filtering out unwanted postings. We warn users who distribute "chain letters" and shut down persistent offenders. If you have problems with unwanted postings, please contact me and we will help you in any way we can to solve the problem. Be sure to save copies of the undesirable materials; the more documentation you have, the easier it is for us to identify and deal with the offender(s). If you feel sufficiently threatened so that you do not want yourself identified to the offender, we will maintain your confidentiality if at all possible. Again, we take such incidents very seriously, and strive to take prompt action when we have concrete information. Nelson R. Pardee, (315) 443-1079 -- LISTMGR@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU Listserv Manager At Syracuse University -- From POP3server Thu Oct 11 19:22:14 GMT 1995 Return-Path: latzko@hardees.rutgers.edu Received: from hardees.rutgers.edu (hardees.rutgers.edu [128.6.18.2]) by mailbox.syr.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA16904 for <rjkopp@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU>; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 15:12:38 -0400 Received: (from latzko@localhost) by hardees.rutgers.edu (8.6.12+bestmx+oldruq+newsunq+grosshack/8.6.12) id OAA09864 for Ray Kopp <rjkopp@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU>; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 14:54:58 -0400

We are contemplating buying some more modems and I've asked for alot of advice on this in the past and have got much, once again though I could use alittle more and maybe alittle more specific. We are currently managing our racks using the DOS based Total Control Product. The SNMP sounds very good it seems like it could solve some problems that have been plaguing us, particularly keeping a cluster of racks intact during configuration changes. If anyone else has gone through this change I would like to hear from you, what you felt you gained, what you felt you lost and what gains do you feel you got in a time saved/money saved sense that I can use for amunition to move towards this conversion. Incidentally I did get a chance to use the SNMP management in a small way and it did run OK for me, however the person that I was working with complained that sometimes the Network Management Modules would not answer and then he couldn't do anything with the rack. He had these on a fairly un-busy subnet. I noticed this happened once on me, so I changed my time- out parameters on the setup for communications with the rack and I'm not sure if it was co-incidence or my change but that did seem to work. Does anyone have any recollection of a problem such as this when setting up? Also what recommendations can you suggest for the management station. Should it be on the same network as the modems? I plan on using a 386 or 486 (the person who I mentioned that was complaining about losing contact with the rack was using a 486/50 PC). The other person also had a few modems fail (he only had 6 cards! for about 2 months). Thanks, Ray Kopp Syracuse Unviersity Computing and Media Services Network Systems rjkopp@mailbox.syr.edu 217 Machinery Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 Voice (315)443-5776 Fax (315)443-3817 From POP3server Fri Nov 2 13:34:20 GMT 1995 Received: from tnt.syr.edu (tnt.syr.edu [128.230.4.245]) by mailbox.syr.edu (8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id IAA23644 for <rjkopp@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU>; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 08:06:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from listserv.syr.edu (128.230.1.252) by tnt.syr.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.0a) with SMTP id 1FA30E20 ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 8:06:33 -0500 Message-Id: <199511021306.IAA23644@mailbox.syr.edu> Reply-To: US Robotics Total Control Product <USRTC@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> Sender: US Robotics Total Control Product <USRTC@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>

I'm using a 486/66 and plan to upgrade to a P75. Got 5 full racks. alex latzko@hardees.rutgers.edu {backbone}!rutgers!latzko Alex Latzko 908/445 5021 (voice) 908/445 2968 (fax) Rutgers University Computing Services TD:NOG PO Box 0879, Piscataway, NJ 08855-0879 From rjkopp@mailbox.syr.edu Wed Oct 11 14:16:31 1995