Xref: utzoo comp.mail.sendmail:853 comp.mail.uucp:3331 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!rayssd!gmp From: gmp@rayssd.ray.com (Gregory M. Paris) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Re^2: Short-circuiting a route Summary: Not so simple... Keywords: .decnet, .dnet Message-ID: <8452@rayssd.ray.com> Date: 29 Jun 89 15:16:32 GMT References: <562@daitc.daitc.mil> <89Jun28.104844edt.10373@neat.ai.toronto.edu> Sender: gmp@rayssd.ray.com (Gregory M. Paris @ Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI) Reply-To: gmp@ray.com (Greg Paris) Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp Organization: Raytheon Submarine Signal Division Lines: 19 Just to note a case where short-circuiting uucp paths to the rightmost domain doesn't work: hop!abc.xyz.com!node.decnet!user I see these things all the time. I believe something called Ultrix generates them. :-) If you short circuit to the rightmost domain, then letters so addressed cannot be delivered. Isn't the ultimate goal to provide better service? Since this is uucp we're talking about, I don't think you can say that node.decnet or node.dnet is illegal, though I'd agree heartily that it's ugly and disgusting. -- Greg Paris {decuac,necntc,uiucdcs,uunet}!rayssd!gmp "You! What planet is this?!"