Xref: utzoo comp.unix.aix:2703 comp.mail.misc:4357 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!fletcher From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: austin.ibm.com Keywords: IBM Austin Internet ! Message-ID: <14941@cs.utexas.edu> Date: 22 Nov 90 03:41:35 GMT References: <4279@awdprime.UUCP> Followup-To: comp.unix.aix Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin Lines: 20 In article <4279@awdprime.UUCP> dcheney@dcheney.austin.ibm.com (David J. Cheney) writes: >The best way to find out mail paths to a specific user (AWD has for some >time had the uucp mail path: > @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!.austin.ibm.com! >) is to call the person and ask. We are evaluating alternative approaches >to solving this problem. Can someone please explain to me why IBM doesn't simply advertise MX records which point to cs.utexas.edu for all these "internal" hosts? I will happily forward all such mail via the !-path above. This would go a long way toward fixing the wretched state of email to IBM Austin. All those mail and news headers would suddenly start working! Heck, I could save several hours a month by not having to explain to dozens of people why their mail to IBM bounces. (David's suggestion to phone the person notwithstanding, my mailbox tells me that many folks simply ask ). I make this suggestion annually, by the way. Who knows, maybe I'll get lucky one of these years.