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From: dillon@overload.UUCP (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re:  How do you reply to !foo.uucp addresses?
Message-ID: <dillon.4292@overload.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 90 23:55:13 GMT
References: <1990Jun4.152017.8229@csmil.umich.edu> <2189@tmiuv0.uucp>
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>In article <2189@tmiuv0.uucp> rick@tmiuv0.uucp writes:
>
>As a further example, to send mail from my home Amiga to this system, the
>whole bang path is:
>
>    (host system is amoeba2, my user name is "rps2"):
>    conexch!ccicpg!perigrine!uunet!zardoz!tmiuv0!rick
>
>A bit messy.  That's why "smart mailers" and "domains" are so nice.  Look
>|    V   | uunet!zardoz!tmiuv0!rick		 (<-- Work (ugh!))             |
>|--------+ uunet!zardoz!xyclone!sysop		 (<-- Home Unix (better!))     |
>|  uunet!perigrine!ccicpg!conexch!amoeba2!rps2  (<-- Home Amiga (Best!!)      |

    The proper way to give a bang path to your site is to ALWAYS begin with
    a FULLY DOMAINED host name.  For example (using the example above):

    uunet.uu.net!perigrine!ccicpg!conexch!amoeba2!rps2

    In most cases the paths are not even that long... if, for example, you
    knew the full domain name for 'conexch' (assuming it has one), you could
    simply say conexch.<domain>!amoeba2!rps2

    Just saying 'uunet' is not good enough in many cases.  Some machines
    run only the domain stuff (you have to say 'uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon'
    to get to me, others run the whole database (where you can just
    say 'overload!dillon' to get to me), and still others do not run any
    database at all, in which case you must know the path to the nearest
    site which does have the database.	Some machines are on the INTERNET,
    others a simple UUCP connection, some on BITNET, etc... using fully
    domained host names is the way that will most likely get the mail to
    its destination.

					-Matt
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    Matthew Dillon	    uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
    891 Regal Rd.
    Berkeley, Ca. 94708
    USA