Re: UQWK: Can't post when news server is down

From: Tim Myddletun (hello-yarners@see.my.sig)
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 11:28:43 -0400

Thu, 1 May 1997 22:16:06 +0930 (CST),
Jim Tucker <jtucker@light.iinet.net.au> wrote:
>I can't understand the problem. Why would you want to post news when
>you have no news to post? In any case if the news server (another
>machine from the one you are logged into) is down it's down. Try again

The original poster's problem is that they can't post EMAIL via Uqwk
when the NTTP server is down... and he's correct. UQWK won't run even
for Email when it can't open an NNTP connection. It's a dumb
situation, but one of the foibles of Uqwk...

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