Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!bbn.com!rsalz
From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: why you should say "-d rutgers -d sun" in your pathalias command line
Message-ID: <1019@fig.bbn.com>
Date: 5 Aug 88 14:48:25 GMT
Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies, Inc.
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. oh, and why is
. the pseudo-domain version [pual@vixie.uucp] ugly?
The question contains its answer; .UUCP is not a domain.  You do not help
The Cause by putting out illegal addresses.

[ Sun turns vixie!paul into vixie!paul@sun.com; replies to that address
will bounce.  This has been called Evil and Rude.]
.  It *is* EVIL and RUDE that
.Sun is munging the header and then NOT accepting the form into which it
.munges the header.
Exactly.  Sun is *TRASHING* mail addresses.  If they acted as a responsible
gateway you could say that they are MUNGING headers.  But they don't, they
rewrite everything and won't accept what they put out.  Either be a full
gateway, or leave that game to the Big Boys (harvard, rutgers, uunet, etc).

.  I know from personal
.painful experience that the mailer in the IBM TCP/IP package cannot use
.ANY host names which aren't in HOSTS.TXT *unless* the site has plunked
.down the many thousands of dollars they need to have a copy of SQL on
.site.
Well, I feel pity for the users on that site, but such is the price of
progress.  Any host that still relies on HOSTS.TXT is so woefully behind
the times that I gotta wonder if they could possibly have anything
worthwhile to say to me (semi :-).

As for "-d rutgers" well, I have no problem with Rutger's policies.
	/rich $alz
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