Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted Message-ID: Date: 13 Jul 90 15:59:07 GMT References: <1990Jun28.164938.23367@DSI.COM> <3008.268b1e9a@mccall.com> <26669@ditka.UUCP> <7871@lynx.UUCP> <100@raysnec.UUCP> <269B82AE.415E@intercon.com> <_2M4591@xds13.ferranti.com> <269D03E5.5995@intercon.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 30 In article <269D03E5.5995@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes: > In article <_2M4591@xds13.ferranti.com>, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da > Silva) writes: > > going by the DNS mail to ferranti.com will be sent via uunet. So I get > > mail sent from Rice University, not 20 miles (and 2 hops) away, sent via > > Virginia, which I guess is about 2000 miles away. > So? Rice can always have mail to *@*.ferranti.com routed to you via UUCP > if this sort of efficiency is an issue. It isn't for them. It is for me. And even if it was, the only practical way for them to do this for any significant number of sites is by using pathalias. But I forgot... you don't believe in pathalias. You think Usenet should depend entirely on the benign neglect of the Internet. > Me, a domain bigot? You betcha, even though I run a UUCP-only site. % smail -A amanda@mermaid.intercon.com uunet!mermaid.intercon.com!amanda You're in u.usa.va.1, with uunet as the only listed connection. Is UUNET a local call? There are quite a few sites that list a connection to you, so you'll still get pathalias routed from some places. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.