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From: emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: uunet vs uunet.uu.net (was Re: how many "pluto"'s )
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Date: 4 Oct 88 21:27:30 GMT
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In article <2521@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>In article <248@acheron.UUCP> clarke@acheron.UUCP (Ed Clarke) writes:
>>.  I have a feeling that most map entries for uunet are
>>technically WRONG -  and should be of the form "uunet.uu.net(DEMAND)"
>>rather than "uunet(DEMAND)".  
>No, they are not wrong.  For purposes of UUCP mail, uunet without
>qualification means uunet.uu.net; the map entries are right.  

right.  And if you have both an asynchronous uucp connection to
uunet and can reach it over the internet, they may be very different.
i.e. from umix, mail to uunet!host!user will go via dial-up,
but mail to uunet.uu.net!host!user will go over tcp/smtp.

--Ed