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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: novice question re mail maps/bang paths.
Message-ID: <1990Aug21.181956.7571@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 21 Aug 90 18:19:56 GMT
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In article <1990Aug20.210800.21492@cbnews.att.com> joe@cbnews.att.com (Joseph Judge) writes:
>	What I did, in college, was have a friend at that closest "smart"
>	site send me an ascii copy of his "paths" database.

>	Then, if I need to send somewhere, I grep it out, send the email to
>	"that_smart_host!whatever_path!user"

Probably a wasted effort.  If the smart site is willing to forward for you
it should also do the path lookup.  You should have been able to send
to smart_host!end_host_or_domain!user and let the mailer on the other
machine do the lookup using its current paths data.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us