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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: the crucial distinction
Message-ID: <9468@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 5 Oct 88 16:16:16 GMT
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Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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[I think there are about 12 people still reading this thread]

rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock) wrote:
>name, e.g. "a!b!c", and you don't talk to "a". These should be returned with
>error, so the sender can fix his/her routing table.

It should be a local decision, and all your neighbors need to know
about it.  I have one host in all of the university that has routing
tables on it.  Everybody else sends to that host with somehost!user as
an address.  This works great, and saves me a lot of work on all the
other hosts (as well as supporting the other departments).

I also have at least a dozen UUCP connections outside the university
that rely on this behaviour.

..Bob
-- 
Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page