Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!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: 22 Jul 90 16:21:55 GMT References: <1990Jul16.202721.271@chinet.chi.il.us> <714@logicon.com> <719@logicon.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 16 In article <719@logicon.com> Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey) writes: > In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > >In article <714@logicon.com> Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey) writes: > [...] > >> Pure DNS mail, for a UUCP-only site, is an oxymoron. > >Nonsense: Just create a file called "/usr/lib/uucp/paths" containing > >the single line "smart-host uunet!%s 0". > Nice try, but /usr/lib/uucp/paths is not part of the Domain Name > System. Hello. Anyone home? If you do this, all your mail will be resolved by the Domain Name System. Not at your site, but at UUNET. Jeeze. There are sites that do this. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`