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From: jprice@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Converting UUCP addresses to Usenet format
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Date: 27 Feb 90 17:36:42 GMT
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In article <334@toaster.SFSU.EDU>, eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>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.

     OK, here's a dumb question.  I'm a sysop on a small system.  I need to 
establish connectivity with UUCP sites.  I've looked at the stuff in 
comp.mail.maps; it's all but undecipherable.  What's more, I probably don't 
have the space on my system for "many, many megabytes".  So, I would need 
to "solicit the services of a site that does" when it comes to sending mail 
to uucp sites.  

     How do I find one?

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