Xref: utzoo news.admin:15597 comp.mail.misc:5830 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!jhunix!andy From: andy@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Andy S Poling) Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Bogus .UUCP addresses, was: Is UUNET going to upgrade? Message-ID: <8860@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 28 Jun 91 16:56:48 GMT References: <1991Jun21.214642.8746@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> <1991Jun22.173931.19979@agate.berkeley.edu> Followup-To: comp.mail.misc Distribution: na Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 24 In article fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: [...] >Roughly >10% of the articles in the news spool here have .UUCP return addresses. A >site that can't send mail to these addresses is preventing its users from >responding to a whole lot of posts. Of course 10% of those .UUCP return addresses are hosts that aren't even in the blinking maps. My mailer looks up host.UUCP in our pathalias database and turns it into a full bang-path. If it's not in our pathalias database (which is updated nightly if necessary), it goes right back where it came from with the admonition that host.UUCP is not a known UUCP host. I refuse to send something as ugly as host.UUCP to anyone else. -Andy -- Andy Poling Internet: andy@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu UNIX Systems Programmer Bitnet: ANDY@JHUNIX Homewood Academic Computing Voice: (301)338-8096 Johns Hopkins University UUCP: uunet!mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!andy