Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Paths and Precedence (Re: Question about From: lines) Message-ID: Date: 12 Jul 90 13:25:37 GMT References: <++J4QGC@xds13.ferranti.com> <3RK4TQE@xds13.ferranti.com> <269B6560.3F1E@intercon.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 In article <269B6560.3F1E@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes: > We don't. You send paths through UUCP. The fact that currently you can > "tunnel" UUCP paths through the internet is a bug, not a feature. Once > mail gets to the Internet, it should have an address, not a route. That's all very well, but in the real world you have little UUCP trees hanging off the internet, and pathalias gives you a nice little bang path all the way through to the end. Your idealism is commendable, but for the forseeable future it's going to be necessary to "tunnel" uucp paths through the internet. So how does one do it? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.