Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!decwrl!shelby!msi-s0.msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Rodney's UUCP modules (was Re: Hard drive woes) Message-ID: Date: 22 Aug 90 05:55:40 GMT References: <6799.26d10343@umiami.miami.edu> <1533@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> Lines: 18 [In article <1533@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>, jhenders@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes ... ] > p.s. Has anyone found reliable mail paths to the German guys > running Rodney's UUPC modules. Everything I try seems to bog > down somewhere around snorklewacker. I've sent half a dozen queries to Rodney with no luck. Never route anything through snorkelwacker. It's a news-only system -- it does not handle mail. The "Path: " line in Usenet news is intended for preventing loops. Abusing it to create UUCP mail paths is suboptimal at best and often sends your mail into a black hole. -- Steve Yelvington up at the lake in Minnesota steve@thelake.mn.org plains!umn-cs!steve