Re: Why can't I get PGP from MIT

At 12:47 PM 1/6/96 -0600, post wrote:
>MIT won't let me get PGP or PGPhone.  I know their server
>went down awhile back but, I have tried them several times
>and sent several e-mail requests.  I thought maybe I was
>missing something obvious or maybe they are just really
>busy.  I keep being told I'm not in the U.S.

There was a posting (either on the server or somewhere else) that claimed
that the MIT site was having problems with .net and .org sites.  (As well as
a couple of others if I remember correctly.)  The posting claimed that they
had fixed the problem, but i guess not...

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On Sat, 6 Jan 1996, Alan Olsen wrote:

> At 12:47 PM 1/6/96 -0600, post wrote:
> >MIT won't let me get PGP or PGPhone.  I know their server
> >went down awhile back but, I have tried them several times
> >and sent several e-mail requests.  I thought maybe I was
> >missing something obvious or maybe they are just really
> >busy.  I keep being told I'm not in the U.S.
> 
> There was a posting (either on the server or somewhere else) that claimed
> that the MIT site was having problems with .net and .org sites.  (As well as
> a couple of others if I remember correctly.)  The posting claimed that they
> had fixed the problem, but i guess not...

I believe I had a problem when I wanted to get PGP coming from 
internexus.net (New Jersey). I just e-mailed them about it and I think 
they just added the site to their 'acceptable' list. I did a traceroute 
to why.net and noticed that it is very close to me, coming off of 
SprintNet... probably the same situation.