I'm going with "clueless until proven otherwise."
Okay, maybe I'm the clueless one-- that's a typo. If I add the silent invisible "g" into sbcglobal it works. Sigh. On the other hand, we do appear to have some nonresponsive machines in the round-robin: mail:~ postmstr$ telnet sbcmx1.prodigy.net 25 Trying 207.115.57.15... telnet: connect to address 207.115.57.15: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host mail:~ postmstr$ telnet sbcmx1.prodigy.net 25 Trying 207.115.57.15... telnet: connect to address 207.115.57.15: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host mail:~ postmstr$ telnet sbcmx1.prodigy.net 25 Trying 207.115.57.15... Connected to sbcmx1.prodigy.net. Escape character is '^]'. I still think there is a real problem on their end, besides my fat fingers. ;-) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com