Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!revell
From: revell@uunet.UU.NET (James R Revell Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Help! How to send mail from Internet to UUCP
Message-ID: <109839@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 27 Oct 90 02:16:57 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.012252.20861@beach.csulb.edu> <1990Oct24.204515.1113@engin.umich.edu> <1990Oct26.043949.17900@moore.com>
Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA
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In article <1990Oct26.043949.17900@moore.com> sanwalk@moore.com (Roy Sanwalka) writes:
>In article <1990Oct24.204515.1113@engin.umich.edu> stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) writes:
>>Try the address "Darek%microsoft.UUCP@uunet.uu.net" -- that should
>>get through.
>
> Umm...I don't think the guys at UUnet Communication Services would appreciate
> this very much.  Although you can get UUCP mail to the Internet through the
> UUNET machine, it is NOT an official gateway between the Internet and the
> UUCP net!

There is no problem with using UUNET as a uucp gateway to any UUNET
subscriber.  This is one of the reasons they may have subscribed.
Microsoft is a UUNET subsciber so such a domain address is ok.

Using UUNET as a gateway to a site that is "nearby" path-wise is not
much a problem either when that's an optimal route.

Using UUNET as *the* gateway to all uucp sites from the internet is bad
because it often leads to long paths through other sites also on the
internet (besides, we can only handle so much incoming mail at a time).

Of course, a lot of uucp sites are in registered domains.  It's best to
use their own domain address if they have one.  Microsoft unfortunately
doesn't have one.
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James Revell   Senior uunet postmaster   revell@uunet.uu.net   /8^{~