Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Convincing Smail to use FQDNs Message-ID: Date: 23 Aug 90 22:20:58 GMT References: <3827@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> <801@wshb.csms.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 In article <801@wshb.csms.com> michaelb@wshb.csms.com ( WSHB Operations Eng) writes: > What it boils down to is this: even though there may be another 'cheaper' > way to send me mail if you knew the links, realistically I'm willing to > pay the phone bill to uunet every day to get you to send me mail through > them. That's true for *unpublished* links. But presumable links published in the maps are intended to be used, and the cost (in all senses) to the systems involved has presumably been included in the map entry. Which is (back to the point) why smail's action in not assuming that an FQDN should go staight to the internet is correct, and that simple-minded munging of the PATHS file based on who has an FQDN should be discouraged. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com