Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!decuac!avolio From: avolio@decuac.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: colons, atsigns, & domains in uucp path keys Message-ID: <899@decuac.UUCP> Date: Wed, 23-Apr-86 12:17:18 EST Article-I.D.: decuac.899 Posted: Wed Apr 23 12:17:18 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 24-Apr-86 07:35:15 EST References: <404@geowhiz.UUCP> <13328@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: ULTRIX Applications Center, MD Lines: 26 jordan@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (Jordan Hayes) writes: > By the way, just to clear up the present confusion about how to reach > internal Berkeley hosts, you can use the following syntax. > Example: user "joeblow" on machine "gadzooks" at Berkeley ... > UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucbgadzooks!joeblow > ARPA: joeblow%gadzooks@Berkeley.EDU > As a matter of fact, you can even combine these to get a UUCP path of > UUCP: ...!ucbvax!gadzooks.Berkeley.EDU!joeblow gadzooks.Berkeley.EDU works from UUCP but *not* from the ARPA Internet??? Shouldn't the ARPA address be similar to the UUCP as in joeblow@gadzooks.Berkeley.EDU ? What's with the %? (I know why it is there and what it means. But why aren't things changing for the better?) -- Fred @ DEC Ultrix Applications Center INET: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM UUCP: {decvax,seismo,cbosgd}!decuac!avolio