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From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: pathalias and the internet
Message-ID: <976@vsi1.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 88 18:28:24 GMT
References: <968@vsi1.UUCP> <657@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <970@vsi1.UUCP>
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In article <970@vsi1.UUCP>, lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes:
= In article <657@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
= >Perhaps you should build your maps with arpatxt,
= >the bit of magic that declares all internet sites
= >to be reachable from a designated uucp-internet
= >gateway site.
= 
= I had forgotten about that feature.  I will investigate it again, now that we
= talk to a few Internet sites.

I have investigated this feature and determined that it is unusable by any
non-internet site.  To use it, one must have the internet hosts.txt table.

I still propose that sites connected to the internet should state so in a
new field in the map entries, so that multiple internet hops can be avoided
by a new version of pathalias.
-- 
Larry Blair
ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb%vsi1@ames.arc.nasa.gov   rutgers!the-moon!vsi1!lmb
"Templeton's right: no logo, no map, and, soon, no joke or witty saying"