[HECnet] VMS/RSX Guest accounts

[Thomas DeBellis]

For VMS, for the moment I've gone with one of Bob's machines as that is 
on the 'local' DECnet area.  Perhaps I'll get better performance 
although Supratim is closer, milage-wise.  D.C. is about a 5 hour drive 
from here, while Bob's neck of the woods is a serious hike (Atlantic to 
Pacific).

On 4/22/20 11:14 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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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