On Thu, 24 Sep 92 13:21:49 EET you said: Dear Colleagues, The entry for .BG points to MAILER@AEARN.As a result of the discussion in March MAILER@AEARN routes mail to the domain .BG to SMTP@AEARN. This requires a local supplement to the profile generator. On September, 22nd, I had to generate a new profile. Because of some reasons the changes to the local input were numerous. Unfortunately the entry for .BG in the local file was deleted causing a loop in the network mailer. The error is corrected. I apologize for this mistake. I am surpised to learn from Daniel's letter that this situation also existed during the last six months because nobody has complained between March 9th and September 22nd. I recommend to contact the sites involved if an error occurs to clarify the situation. To the situation in Bulgaria I can only repeat that AEARN does not interfere into this national affair and I ask Daniel to accept this now. Regards / Wilfried

I do not know if you are aware of it, but this did happen already six months. I hope it would not continue to happen, because users complain that they do not receive their mail, which is misrouted for who knows what reasons to AEARN.

The last story was that the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences claimed to be the "international networking body" for Bulgaria, which is of course just a funny statement. I would at least ask you to inform the .BG top level domain administration if you decide to force route the traffic somewhere.

I would ask EARN once again to please not "borrow" the .BG top level domain from Internet. If you do not know what to do with the mail, simply route it to your nearest Internet gateway. Thanks!

Sorry for the long Cc: list, but this problem should really be solved.

Sincerely, Daniel Kalchev

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Subject: Found some sort of a clue... Message-Id: <JOHNSON.920923165504@maine.maine.EDU> From: Johnson@Maine.Maine.Edu (Jay Johnson) To: daniel@danbo.uucp (Daniel Kalchev) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 16:55:04 EDT

Apparently our mailer got an over-ride record from BITNET which directs BG traffic to AEARN. Our mailer treated my mail as subject to it and sent it to AEARN which, I guess, doesn't know how to get to danbo. The mx records are first to try forth.gr and then eu.net as I remember which seemed ok though I'd have thought the order would be reversed. So thought you'd like to know that sites which have BITNET as well as Internet links and mailers as dumb as ours may be giving grief.