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- From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
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- Subject: Re: Reply-To: rewrite
- Message-ID: <bu76bk.hhx@wang.com>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 07:33:18 GMT
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- vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
-
- > A UUCP gateway necessarily must translate from whatever is happening on
- > the Internet to whatever is right in the connected UUCP world.
- > That necessarily means rewriting all addresses appropriately. In some
- > UUCP worlds, only !-paths work.
-
- I think the only world where this is still true is AT&T. Everywhere else,
- probably 99% of the UUCP sites, now understand domain addresses. And many
- of the sites that do require !-paths, (people running unmodified AT&T
- SysV.2, old Xenixes, etc.) don't honor Reply-To: for return addresses
- anyway, they use the From_ line.
-
- Even for those few sites that only understand ! paths, you're not doing
- them a favor by rewriting domain addresses into !s unless you're a direct
- neighbor, because after one or two more hops, the original !-path has often
- been mutilated into something that is not only wrong, but can't even be
- hand-translated back into a working !-path. At least an untouched
- @-address can be rewritten by hand into a !-path on non-domainist sites.
-
- > Years
- > ago, I found it necessary to to assume the other end does not do FQDN's
- > unless told otherwise. More recently, it has been effective to assume
- > FQDN's are understood unless bounces are seen.
-
- Very much so - and even if bounces are seen, it's worth checking with the
- owner of the affected site and letting him/her know about it first. It's
- often easier to get someone to install smail 2.5 or something, than deal
- with the continual problems caused by rewriting domain addresses into
- !-paths.
-
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