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- From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: News/mail reader
- References: <6RZcuB2w165w@xocolatl.com> <0qZDuB9w165w@tcscs.UUCP> <1992Nov17.223455.22329@morpheus.bssi.bls.com>
- Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:59:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.195927.454@victrola.sea.wa.us>
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- In comp.bbs.waffle you write:
- >Get your mailer-daemon properly configured so that .UUCP does not show up
- >as a top-level domain. Routing of mail to sites in the .UUCP domain
- >should be done via paths info generated by pathalias from the UUCP maps.
-
- pathalias should be taken out and shot. it's time has passed for most folks.
- seriously, everyone...get MX'd. domainize your headers. let bang-paths die.
-
- (and yes, I agree they shouldn't be doing DNS lookups of .uucp stuff
- and that their sendmail shouldn't list the non-existent .uucp domain as
- being 'real').
-
- >zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
- >>I just got it from the Path the news message travelled to get to my site.
- >>
- >>works fine..
- >Which is easy for informed, experienced news readers.
-
- not necessarily.
-
- 'real news' using 'real newsreaders' are generally configurable to
- either reverse the (very slow...very, VERY slow) path backwards to
- you, which assumes that nobody in between (can you say 'rutgers')
- militantly reroutes stuff.
-
- or....
-
- they permit you to say 'no way I will use bang paths...use SMTP style),
- which is what they probably should be set to do in most instances.
- reversing the bang path isn't necessarily the right thing.
-
- >the outside to some local addresses (e.g., morpheus!dawson@bselab.bls.com)
- >works, but not to others. This is somewhat out of my control, though I've
- >been offering tactful suggestions to the administrator of the system acting
- >as MX record holder and email forwarder, and we hope to have this situation
- >resolved in the very near future.
-
- if you need that form of addresses, you need to stomp (not tactfully) your
- local MX forwarder or find another one. If they've agreed to be your MX
- forwarder, and they can't figure out how to do it, or aren't willing to
- devote the time to do it right, they should be stomped HARD. There's nothing
- worse then doing it half-assed. You can't depend on it...your downstream
- sites can't either...nobody who talks to any of you can trust it...gross
- situation.
-
- --
- ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
- I just upgraded to Quicken-for-Windows v2.0 and it's so darn great I'll
- never get rid of DOS...anybody got a Quicken-for-X11R5 ???
-