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- From: tcbowden@clovis.felton.ca.us (Timothy Bowden)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Bang paths (was: UUCP mail processing ethics)
- Message-ID: <w15ouB2w165w@clovis.felton.ca.us>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 06:34:55 PST
- References: <rLjDrARNBh107h@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US>
- Organization: Yucca Flats II in Felton, CA
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- steveh@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US (Steve Harding KA6ETB) writes:
-
- > >> For some reason, I don't think that sending mail to the bang-path above wi
- > >> get to you, Timothy. Personal sig files don't have percent-variables expa
- > >> you need to replace the %A with your own name.
-
- > >In the bang path above, isn't the uunet reference redundant since
- > >scruz.ucsc.EDU!clovis.felton.ca.us!%s (where %s is the user) presumably a
- > >valid bang path in itself assuming the scruz knows clovis? (And
- > >shouldn't clovis be in a map somewhere if it's part of the .us domain and
- > >not a sub-domain off a main site in a city?)
-
- > Well...if clovis.felton.ca.us is indeed registered in the US domain, then
- > the bang path is redundant. However, if clovis is not registered, then
- > it most likely is needed, and clovis should get on the stick.
-
- Clovis indeed is registered us prime grade, and scruz definitely
- knows clovis, and I don't know exactly why the bang path is
- included with a domain address, but I have seen it many times.
- Merely copied the big boys.
-
- I have known of a system which would, even though I was a near
- neighbor, send mail up to uunet to be parsed. I connected with
- this node constantly, and yet mail directly from that node to
- me would take 48 hours!
-
- Perhaps someone working under such a handicap as an account on
- a machine that did such searches would find a closer path in
- the sig if the bang path were laid out? Anyone think of
- another reason why both should be included in a sig? I
- didn't invent the convention, after all.
-
- Tim
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