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From: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Newsgroups: news.newsites,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Grumpy != grumpy
Summary: bang paths (yuk!) work unless ...
Keywords: site not registered properly in August?
Message-ID: <398@ditka.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 20:41:34 GMT
References: <378@Grumpy.UUCP> <8299@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
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In article <8299@alice.UUCP> debra@alice.UUCP () writes:
>Sorry I cannot easily reply to you by mail, Bill, but with a site named
>"Grumpy" your mail is doomed to go to "grumpy" whenever it goes through
>a gateway which converts names to lowercase.

The real problem is that mail auto-routed to "Grumpy" will go to 'grumpy'
instead.  If you specify an explicit bang path, there's no problem unless
the path happens to go thru a "rabid router", in which case you'd better
find a functional path.

Changing the name is, of course, the *right* solution.

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