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From: sechrest@ure.CS.ORST.EDU (John Sechrest)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Ritualistic UUCP Map troubles ...
Message-ID: <11177@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 13 Jun 89 17:14:24 GMT
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In article <7912@saturn.ucsc.edu> ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (scritzifchisted ulmo qzutvchsxik) writes:
>mist.aptos.ca.us == mist.uucp
>mist.math.uoregon.edu != mist.uucp
>mist.math.uoregon.edu == uoregon.uucp
>mist.cs.orst.edu != mist.uucp
>mist.cs.orst.edu != mist.math.uoregon.edu
>(yes, they all exist ...)
>
>
>If you see any "mist.uucp" it is most likely wrong (mist.uucp proper doesn't
>generate much mail).  If you see mist.cs.orst.edu or mist.math.uoregon.edu
>mail destined via "vdx" or "comix" or "splat", that is wrong.  The problem
>might be that MIST.CS.ORST.EDU posts to USENET using a Reply-To: line of
>"user@mist.uucp" which is WRONG, and should be "user@mist.cs.orst.edu" or
>something.  Be on the general lookout for problems in the Reply-To: line of
>any reply you make to USENET, since this seems to be a pathological
>installation bug in "rn".
>

We are aware that mist does in fact generate bad reply to headers 
from news. We will be fixing it now that the summer has started.
It is true that mail to mist.uucp will not come to mist.cs.orst.edu.
One problem that we have had is that mail to orstcs!mist!user will
not work correctly. This happens for several reasons. 

First orstcs uses path alias routing and since it will get the mail
from uucp, it will assume that orstcs!mist!user is really 
user@mist.uucp, which is not mist.cs.orst.edu. If you want to use
a uucp mail address to get to mist.cs.orst.edu (assuming you 
don't have a smarter mailer that accepts RFC 822 addresses) you 
must say:
X!orstcs!mist.cs.orst.edu!user

As as I said earlier, we don't plan to fix this very soon.