Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk!igb From: I.G.Batten@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: Date: 2 Aug 90 07:54:46 GMT References: <65793@sgi.sgi.com> Sender: root@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Root on Masalla) Organization: BT Fulcrum, Birmingham Lines: 20 Disclaimer: Organisation given for identification purposes only vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes: > As has been said many times, not all machines are permitted in the maps. > > 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. The UK news backbone attempts to ensure that all names stamped into Path: headers are either fqdn or real uucp map entries. When my news installation consisted of cat.fulcrum.bt.co.uk (== fulcrum, registered) cross-feeding with masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk (== masalla, not registered) they ``re-educated'' me to stamp the fqdn for the stuff that wasn't registered. In fact, I see no reason not to use fqdn in Path: for all machines entitled to one. Which is what I do now. ian