Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!umich!yale!ox.com!b-tech!zeeff From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: local site in a domain Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 15:43:51 GMT References: <_L=-F2#@b-tech.uucp> Organization: Branch Technology Lines: 17 >> Some mailers subscribe to the not very well though out convention of >> attempting to tack on the local domain (ie, apple!user becomes >> apple.jpr.com!user). > >OK, what's wrong with this convention? When somebody sends mail to mysite!apple!user (intending this mail to be delivered to apple.uucp) it ends up going to user@apple.mysite.com (where it usually bounces). Either get rid of the whole "default domain" thing on sites doing uucp mail or do something like Ed suggested and keep track of the address format and handle uucp differently. The "let's just hope that a name in the default domain doesn't match a uucp name" thing is not the way to do it. -- Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ) zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us