Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!shaman!jiro From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Problems with site with same UUCP name Message-ID: <1991May16.013538.9623@shaman.com> Date: 16 May 91 01:35:38 GMT Sender: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) Organization: Shaman Consulting Lines: 28 Hiya - I was wondering if anyone could offer me any advice. I'm sysadmin, postmaster, and everything else for our site, shaman, which is registered as shaman.com (SHAMAN-DOM) in the NIC maps and as in the uucp maps. There happens to be another UUCP site , however, which is unregistered. The person doesn't have a domain name because he's two hops down a UUCP line, ie. he's or for you UUCP folk. He isn't real careful sometimes, and I just recently got a whole load of BITFTP junk from princeton.edu that the guy had requested, but some mailer had misdirected to our site rather than his. I've been trying to tell him that his mail is coming to our site by mistake (it bounces to postmaster-me). But he isn't being very responsive. Basically his attitude is "it's your problem." Well, it is my problem if he is sending large BITFTP's to my site by mistake and I'm paying UUNET the equivalent of $3 a megabyte. What can I do? Should I send mail to to tell him to convince the other shaman to change his UUCP name to something that doesn't conflict? That would make me a pretty bad net.citizen and world.citizen. But at the same time, I don't like getting mail that ain't intended for me. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks! - Jiro Nakamura jiro@shaman.com -- Jiro Nakamura jiro@shaman.com Shaman Consulting (607) 253-0687 VOICE "Bring your dead, dying shamans here!" (607) 253-7809 FAX/Modem