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From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: why you should say "-d rutgers -d sun" in your pathalias command line
Message-ID: <3400003@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 5 Aug 88 16:14:06 GMT
References: <3674@palo-alto.DEC.COM>
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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/ david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) / Aug  4, 1988 /
>
>What does this have to do with vixie!paul@Sun.COM?  A WHOLE LOT!  The
>'!' thingie in there is very much the same thing as the %-hack, just in
>a slightly different form.  Some random Internet site, say psuvm.psu.edu
>which I happen to know is an IBM mainframe, might not (probably) have
>any notion of what paul@vixie.uucp might mean.

That's all fine and dandy, if you stay out of the UUCP mailers.

But when a message from "vixie!paul@Sun.COM" winds up in the UUCP world,
it's quite likely to be interpreted as
	vixie-->Sun.COM-->mailbox paul
instead of as
	Sun.COM-->vixie-->mailbox paul

So, if sun does insist on performing this "service" (which, apparently, not
everybody wants anyway), they should use "paul%vixie@Sun.COM" instead.

Seems to me, though, that at this stage in the game, sites that play by the
rules should expect sites that don't to bend over backwards to assure
connectivity, instead of it being the other way around.  Any reason why a
machine like psuvm.psu.edu can't refer addresses it can't handle to a
machine that can?

Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,gargoyle,att}!nucsrl!gore