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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Converting UUCP addresses to Usenet format
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Date: 27 Feb 90 13:42:38 GMT
References: <1990Feb26.163457.7879@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1990Feb26.163457.7879@athena.mit.edu>
	wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) writes:
>            How can I automatically or manually convert a UUCP address

>to a Usenet-compatible address like

There is NO SUCH THING as a "usenet-compatible address."
It has NO MEANING.  Usenet does ONE THING and ONE THING ONLY:
it exchanges Network News.  It does not handle electronic mail,
it never did handle electronic mail, and it never will handle
electronic mail.  *NO INDIVIDUALS* have "usenet addresses"--
the smallest granularity is an entire machine.  Usenet is 100%
dependent on some other network(s) to handle electronic mail.
Most newsposters are well-behaved enough to put e-mail addresses
in article headers, but these ARE NOT "usenet addresses."

What you are really asking is how to convert a registered UUCP
address to a fully-qualified domain name.  There is no general
solution to this problem.  Most sites deal with uucp mail by
collecting the many, many megabytes posted to comp.mail.maps
and attempting to divine connectivity from them, or soliciting
the services of a site that does.  In some cases it even works
optimally.

					-=EPS=-