Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted Message-ID: <7499@gollum.twg.com> Date: 8 Jul 90 22:04:59 GMT References: <2680D75A.2C1F@tct.uucp> Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 20 In article karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: >Note that I don't "sabotage" stuff.uucp in the sense you seem to mean. >I do rewrite such things from "somebody@stuff.uucp" to "stuff!somebody." >As far as I can see, the two are semantically equivalent. I simply >refuse to hand "somebody@stuff.uucp" to an SMTP-reached site. There >are a surprisingly large number of them that (correctly) refuse to >acknowledge ".uucp." I send them "stuff!somebody@cis.ohio-state.edu." er.. It would be better if that were somebody%stuff@cis.ohio-state.edu (or %stuff.uucp) if only to avoid the operator-precedence problem. Otherwise I agree with you -- <- David Herron, an MMDF weenie, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- Sign me up for one "I survived Jaka's Story" T-shirt!