Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lethe!becker!bdb From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: sending mail from Internet to Usenet Message-ID: <5171@becker.UUCP> Date: 27 Feb 90 21:03:10 GMT References: Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) Distribution: comp Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario Lines: 27 In article ramey@jello.csc.ti.com (Joe Ramey) writes: |We are currently on both Usenet and the Internet. I am receiving some |pressure to remove our UUCP links. It might be useful for you to elaborate on the nature of said pressure. It's not exactly a friendly move to cut off uucp connections... | We currently use pathalias to |route the UUCP mail. Any mail to addresses ending in .com, .edu, etc. |we hand off to our Internet gateway machine for delivery. | |If we remove ourselves from Usenet, how should we route mail to get to |UUCP-only sites? I know I could just pick a well-known UUCP-Internet |gateway, but this seems abusive. Is there some accepted method, or |are we not supposed to send mail to UUCP nodes via the Internet at |all? You need the permission of the host you intend to hand off to. -- (__) Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario w \@@/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu `/v/-e UUCP: ...!uunet!mnetor!becker!bdb _/ \_ "They never tell you shit like this in high school!" - J. R. Dobbs