Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!david
From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: 100 messages and counting!
Message-ID: <11632@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 3 May 89 15:07:36 GMT
References: <897@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <897@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>I've so far received over a hundred of the following. Somebody want
>to try to explain just what went wrong?

I can explain a bit about the original message from the standpoint of
this site ..

>To: mailrus!b-tech.uucp!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!uflorida!novavax!twwells!comparc

This looks a whooooole lot like a news Path: line.  ESPECIALLY since
ukma and uflorida don't have a UUCP link but DO have a news link.  Remember
boys and girls -- it's Evil And Rude to use the Path: line as a mail address...

When a piece of mail arrives here  for uflorida it is re-routed, by only
looking at the first site mentioned Paul, as so:

	| 5 - g:david --> /mmdfstuff/locmachine/dbmedit 
	dbmedit> print uflorida.uucp
	key "uflorida.uucp": table "chan-uucp": value "mailrus!uflorida!%s"
	dbmedit> print novavax.uucp
	key "novavax.uucp": table "chan-uucp": value "mailrus!uflorida!novavax!%s"

And by itself that's a Good Thing since mailrus & uflorida have a UUCP link,
or so their respective map entries say.
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