Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Kilowatt archive server Message-ID: <11832@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 4 Jun 89 16:19:06 GMT References: <8906041203.AA07298@terra.oscs.montana.edu> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 39 In article <8906041203.AA07298@terra.oscs.montana.edu> iphwk@TERRA.OSCS.MONTANA.EDU (Bill Kinnersley) writes: >[In "Kilowatt Archive-Server", John Sparks said:] >: archive-server%kilowatt@sun.com >: [...] >: >: The only way I got through was with this path: >: >: uunet!sun.com!kilowatt!archive-server >Sorry about the apparent continued confusion, John. Sun.com is on the >Internet. archive-server%kilowatt@sun.com is not a path, it's an >Internet address, to be used by people who are also on the Internet. >People on UUCP should, as you say, use the bang path. Slight correction ... a "...%...@..." type construct has path-like-features about it, both a UUCP path and a @-style %-hack address are "source routed". Meaning that the person sending the mail is also specifying the route the mail is supposed to take in order to reach the destination. The general poor-ness of Sun's e-mail system requires this %-hack to do anything useful, but they're working on making it a lot better. (I expect that very soon they'll tell us that the address is really "kilowatt.west.sun.com" and we won't have any source-routing problems ...) As for the two addresses given. The version John gave *should* be equivalent to the %-hack version. However ... the "general poor-ness" of Sun's e-mail system may be acting funny because of the "!" in the first one. So, something which oughta work if you can only use "!" routes: uunet!sun.com!archive-server%kilowatt But please don't try a ...!...@... form because they don't work the same everywhere and are almost gauranteed to fail anyway. -- <- David Herron; an MMDF guy <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- By all accounts, Cyprus (or was it Crete?) was covered with trees at one time <- -- Until they discovered Bronze