Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ubvax!weitek!setting!robert
From: robert@setting.weitek.UUCP (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: why you should say "-d rutgers -d sun" in your pathalias command line
Message-ID: <699@setting.weitek.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 88 16:48:17 GMT
References: <3674@palo-alto.DEC.COM> <3400003@eecs.nwu.edu>
Reply-To: robert@setting.UUCP (Robert Plamondon)
Organization: WEITEK Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <3400003@eecs.nwu.edu> gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) writes:
>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

Not only that, but Sun's mailer is very good at ignoring the hostname
part and delivering the mail to some local user with the same login
name.  robert@regulus.Sun.COM has occaisionally been plagued with
masses of mail meant for me (weitek!robert).

Sending mail through sun is a good way to ensure that people you
don't know will read it.

-- 

    Robert Plamondon
    robert@weitek.COM
    pyramid!weitek!robert
    "You canna mix matter and antimatter cold"