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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Going from Internet to UUCP
Message-ID: <2dqjg2.8$2@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 24 Nov 90 22:28:16 GMT
References: <112387@uunet.UU.NET> <OHM.90Nov24225946@astemfs.astem.or.jp>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.mail.uucp, article <OHM.90Nov24225946@astemfs.astem.or.jp>,
  ohm@astem.or.jp (MORISHIMA Akitoshi) writes:
< 
< [...]  I think it's difficult in
< general to find the nearest gateway from internet to uucp sites unless
< all such gateways advertise MX for them.  Or are there already any
< tools similar to pathalias to find them automatically?
< 
Since there are no MXes for .UUCP, you can do either
- randomly select one of the Internet->UUCP gateways which are advertised in
  the maps as UUCP->Internet gateways (in file d.Top), on the reasonable(?)
  assumption that they're transferring mail both ways.
- analyze the maps to find, for host XXX, the closest entry with a domain
  alias, lookup a MX for it, and send the mail via the resulting machine.
  Problem: There doesn't seem to be a tool out there which does this.
- Generate a path from you to XXX, chop it off at the last domain name in
  the path, route via MX as above.
  There exists a Perl script (I have written it; send mail if you want it)
  that takes the maps apart in such a way that this actually works.
- enter the path to XXX.uucp in your mail address,
- post your mail to the newsgroup where the user from XXX originally posted
  (this is a very bad idea, but lots of people do it...),
- give up. :-(

Have I omitted anything?

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