Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:5684 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:553 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: More routing question information Message-ID: <75110373@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Date: 31 Dec 90 03:26:02 GMT References: <1990Dec29.182422.8788@kithrup.COM> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp Lines: 25 In article pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: > [ ... kithrup has links to both SCO, a USENET site, and > ucscc, which is an Internet site but has an UUCP link to > kithrup, yet does not advertise itself as a USENET site or > an Internet-USENET gateway ... ] Excuse me, but what in the world is an "Internet-USENET gateway"? Usenet is just a name for the set of computers worldwide that exchange Netnews (not mail), regardless of the communications nets they use to do so. It has nothing to do with mail routing, and there is no way to describe a site's Usenet presence or absence in the UUCP maps, except informally through comments. I would not ordinarily object to casual misuse of the basic mail/news terminology, but when someone of Piercarlo's stature gets it wrong, and bases an entire long argument on it, I have to wonder what he really means. There is no such thing as a "Usenet gateway" for mail. If there is some kind of mail gateway one is not supposed to set up, what IS it, actually? -- The most common given name in the world is Mohammad; | Tom Neff the most common family name in the world is Chang. | Can you imagine the enormous number of people in the | tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM world named Mohammad Chang? -- Derek Wills | uunet!bfmny0!tneff