Subject: New IBMstandards Machine

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 16:20:22 EDT

Greetings,

We changed the hardware platform for our IBMstandards repository last week,
and as a result experienced a few growing pains regarding our AIW mailing
lists.  We also upgraded to a more recent version of the Sendmail program
we use to transmit e-mail to/from IBMstandards, and this caused our mailing
list headaches.  The problems have been fixed and we're back on the air.
Here are some other changes we have made that will affect all AIWers:

     1)  The aiw directory has been moved.  It is now located under
         pub/standards/aiw.  All files and directories under the AIW directory
         remain unchanged.
     2)  The "real" name of the repository has been changed to
         networking.cary.ibm.com.  People can still use the old name,
         ibmstandards.cary.ibm.com, when sending notes to our mailing lists.
     3)  A new directory has been created that you may want to check out.
         It's called appc_appn and is located under the pub directory.  So
         when doing an anonymous ftp, cd to pub/appc_appn and you'll find
         over 200 files containing a broad range of information
         concerning APPN and APPC.  Documents covering example configurations,
         product announcements, tips, marketing&consulting papers, utilities,
         sample code, success stories, etc. can be found here.

         When examining this directory, be sure to first ftp the file
         appc_appn.indx.  You'll find a listing of all the files you have
         access to, grouped under related categories, along with one-liners
         describing their contents.  Appc_appn.indx has not been created yet,
         but will be by the end of this week.

     4)  The new sendmail program means bounce messages get forwarded to the
         owner of the mailing lists ([email-masked]), rather than the
         senders (this hasn't been tested yet, but we're certain we can at
         least tweak this program to make it happen).  So no more annoying
         bounce messages whenever sending notes to an AIW mailing list.

     5)  Much more hard disk space.  Tim Allen would be proudest of this
         feature.  We have over 1 GB of free space available (awwwww awwwww
         awwwww!).

Regards,
Tim Hefel  APPN Architecture