Back in the days before the interconnect mailbag (as defined in X12.56) 
that might have made sense.  I don't know for sure, but I doubt if many 
(any?) VANs do it now.  Back to you, Doug.

Mike

At 03:49 PM 4/29/2005 -0400, Pete Austin wrote:
>
>I used to work for a company called EDI Inc. about 15 years ago.  Back 
>when VAN to VAN interconnects were still brand new.  TA1s were used a 
>"mailbag receipts".  When one VAN dropped off 500 ISA's in one 
>transmission, the receiving VAN would submit TA1s to confirm receipt.
>
>
>----------
>From: [email protected] on behalf of Mike Rawlins
>Sent: Fri 4/29/2005 2:30 PM
>To: Gina Coomer; [email protected]; Dan Cotto-Thorner
>Subject: Re: [EDI-L] ISA-14
>
>Actually, the purpose of the TA1 is:
>
>"To report the status of the processing of an interchange header and
>trailer by the addressed receiver. TA1 fields 1, 2, and 3 are used to
>identify the original interchange whose status is being reported."
>
>So, it's really not intended that the VAN return a TA1, but the ultimate
>receiver as identified in the ISA.
>
>Mike
>
>At 10:18 AM 4/29/2005 -0700, Gina Coomer wrote:
> >Thanks everybody for the clarification.
> >
> >Gina Ann Coomer
> >Smith Heating Supplies
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Dan Cotto-Thorner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Gina Coomer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
> >Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 6:42 AM
> >Subject: Re: [EDI-L] ISA-14
> >
> >
> > > Yes, it should.  But if you are doing a direct link to a trading partner,
> >they may not.
> > >
> > > Also I seem to remember some VANs that would arange with their customers
> >to not send it regardless of the value in the ISA14.
> > >
> > > Check with your VAN on what they do with it.
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > Gina Coomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Dan
> > > Oh, So this tells the VAN to send the TA1 segment, Correct?
> > >
> > > Gina Ann Coomer
> > > Smith Heating Supplies
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >   From: Dan Cotto-Thorner
> > >   To: Gina Coomer ; [email protected]
> > >   Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 6:15 AM
> > >   Subject: Re: [EDI-L] ISA-14
> > >
> > >
> > >   Gina,
> > >
> > >   In the dim dark days of 300 baud modems, some people feared that an
> >interchange may not make it through the phone lines.
> > >
> > >   In an effort to be absolutl sure that the VAN got the entire 
> interchange
> >before the phone went dead, the ISA14 was born.
> > >
> > >   The VAN would create a TA, a Transaction Acknowledgement, indicating
> >that they got the entire ISA.
> > >
> > >   In these days of emails and 100MB direct connects, it seems rather
> >quaint, but since some people are still using Morse Code for EDI (just a
> >joke) it is still there, and likely will be during the Y10K cirsis in about
> >8 thousand years.
> > >
> > >   Dan Cotto-Thorner
> > >
> > >   Gina Coomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >     Hello Group
> > >     Can someone please explain what the ISA-14 is used for exactly?
> > >     The standards say '0' for No Interchange Acknowledgement 
> Requested and
> >'1'
> > >     for Interchange Acknowledgement Requested (TA1).
> > >     All ISA-14 elements that I have seen always had a value of '0' and a
> >997
> > >     acknowledgement was still sent back.
> > >     Is this something other than a 997?
> > >     Thank you for any insight.
> > >
> > >     Gina Ann Coomer
> > >     Smith Heating Supplies
> > >
> > >
> > >
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