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From: jimb@dopey.AMD.COM (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Bug (feature?) in smail 2.3
Message-ID: <355@dopey.AMD.COM>
Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 12:41:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: dopey.355
Posted: Wed Jun 10 12:41:19 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 04:11:19 EDT
References: <2088@cxsea.UUCP> <2089@cxsea.UUCP> <1217@epimass.EPI.COM> <6762@a.ms.uky.csnet>
Reply-To: jimb@dopey.AMD.COM (Jim Budler)
Distribution: world
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, Ca.
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Keywords: REROUTE considered (sometimes) harmful


In article <6762@a.ms.uky.csnet> david@ms.uky.csnet (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) writes:
>>2. REROUTE believes that there are no duplicate UUCP names. ...
>>
>>   To use Phil Ngai's example, there is an AT&T site named neptune
>>   and an AMD site named neptune.  But there's no name conflict;
>>   the AMD site neptune does not appear in the UUCP map and its official
>>   name is neptune.amd.com.  If someone mails to amdcad!neptune!user,
>>   this is a different neptune than the AT&T one, and mailers shouldn't
>>   be f*king with the address.
>
>This is the part I couldn't let pass by.
Why not?
>
>If amdcad wants to have their neptune able to send and receive mail
>without hassles, then they should arrange it so that mail will be sent
>to amdcat!neptune.amd.com!user.  (i.e. putting that out in headers when
It said the official name was neptune.amd.com.
>mail is sent out, announcing in the maps either the existance of a
>gateway for .amd.com or the existance of neptune.amd.com itself, etc).
Try uuhosts 'amd.com'.

Registered, mapped, gatewayed, and sendmail configured to know about
the .AMD.COM long ago.
>
>If they do anything else, they're asking for trouble.

You mean like the user who places amdcad!neptune!joe in his .signature :-)?
+---------------

We do all of the above, but I still believe that ...!amdcad!dopey!...
in a path should always refer to OUR dopey (dopey.amd.com).

A path of the form ...!amdcad!dopey!jimb which passes through any
site which has defined REROUTE will be sent to dopey, a machine in Ohio
rather than to OUR dopey.

( You'll note the change of the example from neptune to dopey, above. This
is for the simple reason that, with the removal of att internal machines
from the maps a couple of months ago, there is no longer any non-domainized
neptune in the map. But there is a dopey.)

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