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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: *uucp* addresses
Message-ID: <1432@utcsstat.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Nov-83 03:16:34 EST
Article-I.D.: utcsstat.1432
Posted: Tue Nov 15 03:16:34 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Nov-83 09:05:57 EST
References: <188@menlo70.UUCP>, <3753@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Organization: U. of Toronto, Canada
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Here is another problem which I have run into. I think that site foo talks
to site bar, but I am wrong. I mail to decvax!foo!bar!somebody. This
should bomb out. But decvax optimises its paths (thanks decvax) and
decvax talks to site bar, so the mail gets sent to decvax!bar!somebody
which works just great.

Then somebody tries to send mail back to me. He tries foo!decvax!utcsstat!laura.Boom. It fails, because his site does not know anything about foo. Unless
he knows that my mail only got to him courtesy of decvax magic, he may be at
a loss to find out how to get to me.

The problem is worse if he is mailing to:

whiffle!griffle!mumble!umble!decvax!utcsstat!laura, because the magic
updating could have taken place at any of those sites.

Laura Creighton
utcsstat!laura