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From: zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: uunet vs uunet.uu.net (was Re: how many "pluto"'s )
Message-ID: <4788@b-tech.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 88 14:01:46 GMT
References: <731@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <248@acheron.UUCP> <2521@epimass.EPI.COM> <734@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff)
Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <734@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>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.
>

This is unfortunate.  We have the naming scheme determining the 
transport mechanism when it should be using the most efficient one.  
The pathalias data can be used to get uunet.uu.net from uunet.  



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Jon Zeeff      			Branch Technology,
umix!b-tech!zeeff  		zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us