Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!mailrus!uflorida!haven!rutgers!att!cbnews!tgt From: tgt@cbnews.ATT.COM (Tim Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: More carping about AT&T Keywords: maps Message-ID: <1414@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 30 Sep 88 16:54:26 GMT References: <822@ontenv.UUCP> Reply-To: tgt@cbnews.ATT.COM (Tim Thompson) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 52 In article <822@ontenv.UUCP> soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) writes: > >uuhosts ddsw1 > >UUCP mail path from ontenv to ddsw1: >ddsw1 ontmoh!utgpu!att!ddsw1!%s 200 > >UUCP mail information for host ddsw1 (#USENET lines show USENET news links): > >Yup, there it is a path through att, but no map entry Hmm... Something is wrong here with your maps, anyway. There does indeed exist a map entry for ddsw1. But that's besides the point. >Yet see what this yields: > >uuhosts att > >[This map is more recent than the third party embargo start on Sept 1] Actually, the shut-off of third-party e-mail did not being in earnest until the 21st of September, but again, that is besides the point. ># This list of externally connected machines will be very volatile over ># the next couple of months as AT&T gets out of the 3rd-party e-mail ># business. ># ># >att (HOURLY), (HOURLY), (HOURLY), > (HOURLY), (HOURLY), (HOURLY), > (HOURLY), (HOURLY), (HOURLY), > > ...And so on... > >Her comes the kicker. AT&T is already bouncing through-bound mail yet >their map still shows terminal connections to about 100 outside >systems. Any comments Mark/Tim/Et Al? >-- >Norman Soley >UUCP: uunet!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley VOICE: +1 416 323 2623 >OR: soley@ontenv.UUCP The next version of the pathalias map for .ATT.COM will no longer list these external connections. I was using the "" pathalias syntax until the actual shut-off occurred. Now that it has been put into place, these entries will be removed from the map. Tim Thompson .ATT.COM Map Maintainer tgt@cbnews.ATT.COM