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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Rerouting of explicit paths
Message-ID: <701@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 88 11:35:29 GMT
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Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
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Summary: Get the email there!


About two years ago, I had difficulty about getting UUCP mail from my home
site to another.  The problem was that pathalias showed a link as DAILY
when it should have been called DEAD.  Now I had no problem in finding a
working path, but since the "smart" mailers ignore what I tell them, mail
did not get there.  The mail gurus should realize that maps are always out
of date in some manner, and that there may be good reasons why the "smart"
mailers are, in fact, stupid.  Something should be done to get the mail
through!
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (ARPA or UUCP) or hrubin@purccvm.bitnet