Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!umix!b-tech!zeeff
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: <4790@b-tech.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 15:15:17 GMT
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Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <736@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>>>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.  
>
>no, it's not.  When the internet melts down, we can still get
>to uunet - and for three days last week that was the case.
>Who is to say what is "most efficient" ?

You should decide which is most efficient, not have it decided for you 
by the practically random use of uunet.uu.net vs. uunet.  

Probably something like trying smtp first and then uucp if that fails 
would be most "efficient" in your case.  Of course you need the right 
software to do this, the lack of which I suspect is the real reason 
why things are done as they are.  

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