Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!uupsi!fozzie!stanley From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: PSU loses uucp gateway? Message-ID: Date: 11 Feb 91 16:49:49 GMT References: <91041.210638DHH102@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: Not BIFF At All (NBAA) Lines: 14 writes: > just use username@host.uucp > psuvm should be smart enough to send it to the appropriate gateway > so that it will get through.. This is the preferred method for > addressing UUCP mail anyway..specific routing is usually frowned upon. > (in many cases anyway) Unfortunately, too many people assume that host.UUCP will be their address and don't bother telling any of the UUCP gateways about themselves (or the gateways are slow to update). This makes all the happy mail bounce. Since the only address you have is host.UUCP, you now must spend your time looking through the maps to find them, or (if replying to news) pasting in the Path: line as the address.