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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Stuck with .UUCP forever?
Message-ID: <1728@fig.bbn.com>
Date: 17 May 89 22:05:09 GMT
References: <1046@ittg.UUCP> <3174@epimass.EPI.COM> <285@xdos.UUCP>
Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
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In <285@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes:
>Since all of your options are unsatisfactory to many people, you can
>assume that ".UUCP" is never going to go away, at least not via those
>options.

Sure you can; you make it VERY WORTHWHILE for folks to join the standards...

Concrete example:  It would be trivial for me to set things up so that
mail to the moderator of comp.sources.unix will NEVER get a reply unless
a valid domain address is sent.

I have wanted to take lines like this out of my sendmail.cf for quite
some time:
    R$+<@$+.$+.uucp>	$1<@$2.$3>		u@aaa.bbb.uucp -> u@aaa.bbb
    R$-!$+		$@$>6$2<@$1.UUCP>	resolve uucp names
    R$+@$-.UUCP		$2!$1			u@h.UUCP => h!u

I haven't done it yet, but I might.  "If you wanna talk, speak my language."
Does that make me an asshole?  Probably.  Do I care?  So far, yes, that's
I haven't done it.
	/rich $alz
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