Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!cadre!pitt!darth!libove!root
From: root@libove.UUCP (The Super User)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: pathalias+smail+bitnet_names=oops
Message-ID: <17@libove.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 12:42:52 GMT
Organization: NKJL Enterprises
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I just noticed an interesting possible problem. With smail 2.5 
running on my machine, and pathalias generating a pathfile from
the maps in comp.mail.maps, the domain ".edu" is routed through
rutgers at present. Unfortunately, some sites now have domain
style names (e.g. "vms.cis.pittsburgh.edu" with is really
PITTVMS.BITNET) and mail directly to them will be routed through
rutgers... Will rutgers know how to route to such sites? Somehow
I don't expect so...

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get around this, without
explicitly listing every bitnet node in the world in the pathfile?

Jay (Jay.Libove@andrew.cmu.edu  pitt!darth!libove!libove)