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From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: active rerouting
Message-ID: <16129@onfcanim.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 88 23:13:42 GMT
References: <4740@b-tech.UUCP> <4747@b-tech.UUCP> <4748@b-tech.UUCP> <4753@b-tech.UUCP> <1426@ficc.uu.net> <6548@chinet.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Organization: National Film Board / Office national du film, Montreal
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In article <6548@chinet.UUCP> les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>
>Then news software running on machines that do not have the map data could
>pass replies off to the nearest site that knows how to route it. There are
>currently ways of making this happen, but they are not standardized and may
>depend on interpretation by intermediate sites. 

This is exactly what happens if you define INTERNET when you compile
B news, and then set up "internet" in /usr/lib/news/mailpaths to
point to a machine that will handle Internet-style addresses
and is willing to do this for you.

This works pretty well - we used it for a year here until I finally got around to
installing smail.