Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!m2c!ulowell!bbn!bbn.com!rsalz
From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Rerouting of explicit paths
Message-ID: <532@fig.bbn.com>
Date: 19 Mar 88 16:47:10 GMT
References: <327@vsi1.UUCP> <9@tness7.UUCP> <3544@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <410@ontenv.UUCP> <128@heart-of-gold>
Organization: BBN Laboratories, Cambridge MA
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>> A lot more time and money would be saved if everybody used news
>> compiled with INTERNET defined. Let's deal with the problem at it's 

>Well, I tried that on this machine, which has only SMTP connections, and
> [it didn't work]

Not to be insulting, but I think your whole set up is suspect.

Look at the from line you generate:
    From: jc@heart-of-gold (John M Chambers x7780 1E342)
without any domain information this is a totally useless address.

I would have sent this to you privately, but I obviously couldn't.

I suppose I could have figured something out from the Organization and
the path:
   Path: bbn.com!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!pasteur!ames!necntc!linus!heart-of-gold!jc
   Organization: Mitre Corp, Bedford, MA, USA
but that's WRONG!  In addition to being a gross waste of my time, there
are (at least) two technical reasons against doing this.

Why?  Well, notice the first two hosts.  They don't correspond to the
Internet host names of the hosts involved:  bbn is bbn.com, our gateway
machine; bbn.com is any machine that gets an internal feed from this
central star.  Second, look at the two cross-country hops that are
involved.  What's that?  You're not intimately familiar with all the
hosts mentioned in the path?  Sorry, that's the price you have to pay
if you want to reliably reply along the Path line.

>It's been said that something that works is preferable to something that
>fails.  It's even more true that something that always works is preferable
>to something that always fails.  (:-)

Properly set up it works fine.  Continuing the pithy quotes:
	If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
	When all else fails, read the instructions.

/r$
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