Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sco!davidbe From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Converting Internet addresses to UUCP addresses Message-ID: <1670@scorn.sco.COM> Date: 23 Jan 90 20:20:11 GMT References: <325@fltk.UUCP> <2193@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <1160@scorn.sco.COM> <1644@dsac.dla.mil> <160.25af4890@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu> <270@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Sender: news@sco.COM Reply-To: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) Organization: The Sinatra Catharsis Obligates Lines: 39 She said that he said that she said that eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) said: -In article - wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner) writes: ->Using more than one at sign in an address is Officially Frowned Upon - -While it's now officially frowned upon, the IPP will *not* do you -grievous bodily harm if you do it responsibly. Let's suppose you -have an address that doesn't resolve--like HAYES.FAI.ALASKA.EDU -for example. (nslookup says the only valid *.fai.alaska.edu are -acad3, barney, fred, sxclm, sxjlh, sxtjh, systems, systems1, -ua-gw, and ua-gw2.) I might try - @acad3.fai.alaska.edu:wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu -in the hope that acad3 runs a hacked mail system that intercepts -what appears to be a bogus address. And yes, there's more than -one @ in there. Yeah, but they *should* do you harm. How can you be sure that the sites that will route your mail will be hacked appropriately. To get mail to Bill without attracting the attention of the IPP, mail to: acad3.fai.alaska.edu!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!wisner (sending directly to hayes would probably work, as nslookup may not be completely up to date. it would get to fai, and locally get sent to the proper place.) Both RFC's (at least the latest one) say that you can use full domain names as intermediate routers. You need never use an @ sign again, actually. This is probably the preferred method for people who live on UUCP nodes, and don't have nslookup. not a mail address guru but i play one at work -- David Bedno aka davidbe@sco.COM: Speaking from but not for SCO. "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."