Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!caen!ox.com!tbomb.ice.com!time From: time@tbomb.ice.com (Tim Endres) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: What should a new UUUCP do? Message-ID: <1CE00001.ab22ep@tbomb.ice.com> Date: 6 Dec 90 11:19:13 GMT Reply-To: time@tbomb.ice.com Organization: ICE Engineering, Inc. Lines: 23 X-Mailer: uAccess - Mac Release: 1.0.3 In article , grant@bluemoon.uucp (Grant DeLorean) writes: > I guess I should go look at the maps before speaking, but why have > yourself listed in the maps as connecting to other systems with a > full map entry if you don't want mail mapped through you? Since the > This is required so that people know how to get mail *to* me as well as *through* me. If I don't list the hosts I talk to, you don't know how to get to me. Now, there is a means of specifying that your host is a "leaf" node, allowing pathalias et.al. to determine not to route mail through you. Of course, the case in which you wish to forward mail downward(out?), but not upward(in?), I have never seen before, but I suspect that even this can be handled. It is a *directed* graph after all. tim. ------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Endres | time@ice.com ICE Engineering | uupsi!ice.com!time 8840 Main Street | Whitmore Lake MI. 48189 | (313) 449 8288 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com