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From: jbs@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: News 2.11 (Really: Where is a List of Backbones)
Message-ID: <3653@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 22:33:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 30 22:33:59 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 31-Oct-86 13:21:31 EST
Reply-To: jbs@mit-eddie.UUCP (Jeff Siegal)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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I'm currently working on installing News 2.11 on mit-eddie.  I need to
set up the mailpaths file so that it lists the backbone site to which
our moderated group postings should be mailed.

Two questions:

  1) There doesn't seem to be a list of backbone sites included
     in the distribution.  How do I know which sites qualify
     (i.e. have the necessary aliases set up)

  2) Which backbone site (or subset of the backbone sites) should
     Internet hosts send to?

Also, there doesn't seem to be any way to specify different hostnames
for mailing (i.e. a domain-style hostname) and paths (i.e. a
uucp-style hostname).  Several MIT sites have this difficulty.  Is
there an easy way to handle this, or should we start putting
domain-style address into news paths?

Jeff Siegal