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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Who pays the bill?
Message-ID: <26B70994.578B@intercon.com>
Date: 1 Aug 90 16:55:48 GMT
References: <26A738A8.725B@tct.uucp> <Jul.22.17.30.26.1990.1282@turbo.bio.net> <Jul.30.17.57.18.1990.9079@turbo.bio.net> <65793@sgi.sgi.com>
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In article <65793@sgi.sgi.com>, vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
writes:
> If you reduce the UUCP path
> 	"bionet!oracle!decwrl!sgi!oni.sgi.com!apple!user"
> into
> 	"bionet!apple!user"  or  "user@apple.com"
> then you have just gratuitously bounced someone's mail.

What's wrong with

	bionet!oracle!decwrl!sgi!apple.sgi.com!user

..?  If 'sgi' knows about oni.sgi.com, why wouldn't it know about any
other machine in its domain?

From the start of Usenet, UUCP host names have always supposed to be unique.
--
Amanda Walker <amanda@intercon.com>
InterCon Systems Corporation