Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!mintaka!yale!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wang!fitz From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted Message-ID: Date: 13 Jul 90 23:25:06 GMT References: <7499@gollum.twg.com> <1990Jul10.133026.18326@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <1990Jul11.204251.6990@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 16 les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: > Always saying user@domain is not a solution > if you assume that the intermediate uucp hops run out-of-the-box AT&T > rmail. Even if user@domain is valid and what the user says, the > local mail has to generate a path to the domain gateway. This is optimizing for broken sites at the expense of working sites. We've had several RFCs and gigabytes of text in this newsgroup saying what UUCP sites should be doing, and lots of us are doing the right thing (I think). Is it really worth working so hard to give life-support to broken configurations, when it makes things worse for up-to-date configurations? --- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz