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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (William C. Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: why you should say "-d rutgers -d sun" in your pathalias command line
Message-ID: <319@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 7 Aug 88 16:58:32 GMT
References: <3674@palo-alto.DEC.COM> <3400003@eecs.nwu.edu>
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (William C. Fenner)
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In article <3400003@eecs.nwu.edu> gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) writes:
|/ 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.
Actually I think it has a slight notion.
|
|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?
Nope.  Actually I think it might... psuvax1.cs.psu.edu knows (or thinks it
knows) all about all the UUCP sites there are... so there's no reason why
it shouldn't (except that IBM writes drain-bamaged software)

  Bill