[HECnet] VMS/RSX Guest accounts

[Johnny Billquist]

Well, the more the better, so get that VMS account. If you want to, I 
can create an account for you on MIM as well. (But it will be tomorrow, 
I need to go to bed...)

   Johnny

On 2020-04-23 05:12, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
> Yes, but the MIM guest account is shared; I'm going to need to store a 
> few files (captures, control files, Etc.)
> 
> Wow, you've kept a real VAX running from 1993?  Good for you! I'll 
> contact you off-list.
> 
> On 4/22/20 11:07 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>>
>> Thomas - MIM already has a guest account ... I have had fun sending 
>> Johnny smtp emails to that account.
>>
>> I can give you an account on MARIAH (a real VAX) if you wish, shoot me 
>> a note offline if you decide to follow up ...
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Supratim
>>
>> On 4/22/20 10:49 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
>>> I've had my fill of FAL and DAP for the moment and have turned to 
>>> some other things as sort of a 'break'.  The Tops-10 NFT client 
>>> breaks on certain file names that the 20 sends it, so there is going 
>>> to be some debugging to track that down.  Fortunately, a very patient 
>>> person gave me PPN on one of their 10's.
>>>
>>> Right now, I'm working on bringing the Tops-20 mail system a bit more 
>>> up to date with respect to DECnet communications.  These were largely 
>>> put aside when full Internet connectivity happened. Still, the PANDA 
>>> distribution has some bit rot because I know that certain Columbia 
>>> changes for DECnet (to support CCnet) are not there.  I can't imagine 
>>> that we didn't send them to MRC; that would have been unthinkable.
>>>
>>> Fortunately, I was able to remember enough to put some of them back 
>>> so that I got SMTP over DECnet working well, again.  It had been 
>>> suffering from about two minute timing delays and now it's 
>>> instantaneous between 20's, like I remember.   Oddly enough, I don't 
>>> remember what else ran SMTP over DECnet; I'm certain that RSX and VMS 
>>> could have done it.  I think some VMS site might have.
>>>
>>> However, most non-SMTP DECnet hosts on CCnet were running Mail-11, 
>>> which the 20 also groks.  In fact, it can convert Mail-11 addresses 
>>> to SMTP and route over other transports such as PUP, Chaos and TCP/IP 
>>> as well as DECnet.  We did a lot of mail routing for CCnet to the 
>>> Internet on CU20B, back in the day.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, there is some bit rot in some of the Tops-20 Mail-11 
>>> code, so I've got some tinkering to do.  Does anyone have a VMS or 
>>> RSX system that they'd care to give me a guest account on?  It 
>>> doesn't need any special capabilities; I'm just going to be sending 
>>> mail and looking a few raw headers over.
>>>
>> -- 
>> Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT
>> 39.19151 N, 77.23432 W
>> QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet


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