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- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!sl
- From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Organization: Wimsey Information Services
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:18:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <C0qF29.GBG@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <5w43wB5w165w@willard.atl.ga.us> <1ilqa3INNhfh@wintermute.phys.psu.edu> <C0Lw2o.H82@wimsey.bc.ca> <C0pG4u.1Lx@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
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- In article <C0pG4u.1Lx@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) writes:
- >>I have to agree with this post. One addressing scheme. Get those uucp
- >>hosts FQDN's. This can easily be handled by the site that connects them
- >>to the internet.
- >>
- >That is not as easy as it sounds. There are thousands of UUCP sites who
- >are multiple hops from the Internet via multiple paths. The host that
- >eventually drops their mail into the Internet may be different for each
- >message. That host may be totally unaware that they are the connection.
- >In this case, what site acts as the MX? The originating site only has an
- >agreement to exchange mail with it's neighbors. Now what?
-
- Probably a bad idea to set things up like that in the first place. If you
- expect to receive mail via an Internet host some arrangements have to be
- made to let it know how to do it. Trying to pass this information along
- with the message as part of the address just does not have a high success
- rate. It does work in some cases, and if you want to receive your mail
- that way then keep doing it.
-
- But if you want trouble free mail, make the arrangements, pay the bills
- and if necessary upgrade your mail software. Your correspondants will
- thank you.
-
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