Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!splut!jay
From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: ! and @ -- which RFC ?
Message-ID: <472@splut.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 23:22:39 GMT
References: <1121@cblpf.ATT.COM> <4634@chinet.UUCP>
Reply-To: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
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Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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Summary: the path database is huge...

In article <4634@chinet.UUCP> les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>In article <1121@cblpf.ATT.COM> tgt@cblpf.ATT.COM (45264-Tim Thompson) writes:
>>With the free smail package, and the ease with which it can be installed,
>>there just doesn't seem to be a reason why a uucp machine can not understand
>>the "@" syntax.
>  The machines are small and fairly loaded as is; I don't want each of
>them to have to store the names of all the machines in the known universe
>or to search such a table every time mail is sent.

This is the reason I haven't installed smail on splut yet. I don't want
to maintain a humongous database (if my 286 machine could even handle
it, and one neighbor indicates it can't), and I have not one but two
well-connected neighbors and one fairly-well-connected neighbor that I
haven't figured out how to use to their fullest (i.e. I want stuff that
can go through ihnp4 to the destination machine but not through uunet
easily to go via tness1, while I want stuff that can go directly through
uunet to go via nuchat...)

(Anyone with a solution to this one will earn my undying thanks!)
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC...>splut!< | GEnie: JAYMAYNARD  CI$: 71036,1603
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