Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!bunker!stpstn!aad
From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: using Path: for mail replies
Message-ID: <2018@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 14:41:52 GMT
References: <676@bacchus.dec.com> <881@vsi1.uucp> <10135@e.ms.uky.edu> <60@minya.uucp> <8528@swan.ulowell.edu> <879@ncrcan.toronto.ncr.com> <63@volition.dec.com> <do0ro#3cRrZV=eric@snark.UUCP> <70@volition.dec.com>
Reply-To: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT
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In article <70@volition.dec.com> vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) writes:

>Registering in the u.* files costs nothing; smail is available for free;
>you don't need a full database, or a 32-bit machine to run pathalias since
>you don't need to run pathalias; smail will run on SysV or SysIII or BSD,
>and probably V7 and Xenix.

We're registered in the u.usa.ct.1 file because it's free, and I have
a copy of smail2.5 (3.x seems to be a myth as far as I can tell) because
it's free.  The skimpy documentation that I got with smail does seem
somewhat elitist:

From the smail 2.5 Read.me file:
  Prerequisites:

  A properly registered domain name for your organization, such
  as ATT.COM.  (It is possible to run smail using a domain name
  under .UUCP, but since this can't be officially registered,
  it is appropriate only for testing.)
		
From the defs.h file:

**      full domain name is 'hostname.uucp' (get registered!)

and

  /*
   * .UUCP here is just for testing, GET REGISTERED in COM, EDU, etc.
   * See INFO.REGISTRY for details.
   */		


I'm still trying to figure out how to use .UUCP because GETTING
REGISTERED isn't free.  It's $150 a year as far as I can tell.
Believe it or not, we don't communicate directly with an
internet site, so we'd have to subscribe to uunet, $35 a month
plus phone costs.  And of course there isn't even an INFO.REGISTRY
file there for me to see.

Now, please don't see this as a flame.  Smail is a good thing,
and pathalias is a good thing, but trying to explain to the
management that's cut spending to the bone that we need to
spend a couple hundred dollars a year for something intangible
is impossible.

-- 
@disclaimer(Any concepts or opinions above are entirely mine, not those of my
	    employer, my GIGI, or my 11/34)
beak is								  beak is not
Anthony A. Datri,SysAdmin,StepstoneCorporation,stpstn!aad