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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted
Message-ID: <1990Jun27.190749.4420@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 27 Jun 90 19:07:49 GMT
References: <2057@ramona.Cary.NC.US> <689@logicon.com>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <689@logicon.com> Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey) writes:

>If this were true, the world would be a much happier place.  Case in
>point: "snoopy" in the UUCP Map is the same machine as "Logicon.COM",
>while "snoopy" in a USENET Path: header is the same machine as
>"snoopy.Colorado.EDU".  I'll let you guess what happens when someone
>mails a reply to a Path: header and then someone along the way
>reroutes to simply "snoopy!user".

Re-routing is a different issue from domain naming.  Virtually all of
the uucp mailers that handle domain names do a complete expansion of
the path on the first machine that recognizes the domain or its
uucp gateway.  Intermediate machines beyond that point don't know
that you didn't specify the expanded uucp path yourself and are
just as likely to re-route.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us