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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: path to McGill?
Message-ID: <1344@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 88 11:54:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.1344
References: <1738@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <1738@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
> I need a good path to oliver.cs.mcgill.edu (or .cdn, or .ca, I have
> seen a number of versions of it).

The .CA version is the "most official" and the most likely to work.
The .EDU version might work; it was proper once upon a time.  The .CDN
version is not valid at all, as far as I know (but I could be wrong).

> What's the nearest backbone site?

Any Internet host should be able to SMTP directly to it.  This may not
be much help in the UK, though.  Try uunet - they're definitely on the
Internet.

> - pure domain addressing doesn't seem to work.  Something eats all my
> messages and email from there can take three weeks (!) to get to me.
> "musocs.uucp" (which ought to be the same site) seems no better.

musocs.uucp *is* the same machine as oliver.cs.mcgill.ca.  And yes,
mail service to/from Computer Science here (which is what .cs.mcgill.ca
is: Computer Science at McGill) is not the best.  They're trying to run
too many machines at once with too few people, some of whom aren't even
full-time....

Depending on the user you're sending to, it might be that they simply
aren't replying.  I've had mail take a long time to get answered.

If you can get mail here (larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu, aka
mcgill-vision.uucp), we can try various experiments and see what works.
(The .edu vs .ca confusion is an artifact of history.  The .ca version
should work; I give .edu for larry because .edu is somewhat solider
than .ca.  Oliver was under .mcgill.edu once upon a time, and that name
might even be still valid - I'd have to check.)

					der Mouse

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