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From: karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu
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Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted
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Date: 6 Jul 90 16:10:00 GMT
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Anselmo-Ed@cs.yale.edu writes:
   Rich> This is kind of risky, no?  Easy to get mail loops.
   Rich> I think conventional wisdom is that the MX'er should be one-hop
   Rich> off the IP-connected Internet.

   If you flatten the UUCP envelope from foo.dom.ain to foo...
   ...there shouldn't be much trouble

As I've said, I prefer direct connections; but I'll put up with a
multi-hop connection if necessary.  The only multi-hop case which I
currently support has a single intermediate hop.

--karl
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