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- From: trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mail Address Question - Help please...
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 01:20:26 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Distribution: usa
- Message-ID: <1df5kqINN5cn@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <101.2af6f181@forthd.uucp>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu
- Keywords: stupid pet-tricks
-
- In article <101.2af6f181@forthd.uucp> johnl@forthd.uucp (John Lebert) writes:
- > What in the hell is my mail address? Everyone I talk to says
- > something different. Here is my relationship to the net-
-
- Assuming sysc has a domain name, use sysc.domain.name!sysb!sysa!forthd!johnl.
- That will be the most universally usable, though other people may have to
- translate it to formats that their systems can understand.
-
- You can also improvise other addresses using the %-hack or the mixed !/@
- notation, but neither one is particularily desirable. (If you _must_ use
- the percent hack, use johnl%sysa%sysb@sysc.domain.name)
-
- > Is my address johnl@forthd? johnl@forthd.uucp?
-
- Until you are in the maps, do not use forthd.UUCP. The ".UUCP" means
- "I'm in the UUCP maps". Of course, so many people use it incorrectly
- that its usefulness as a routing hint is greatly diminished. (Even my
- site used it incorrectly for about two months, before I found out what
- it was supposed to mean.)
-
- johnl@forthd works, especially for news. You will have to give a bang-
- path in your .signature file so that people can reply to your messages.
- (A few news programs will try to retrace the Path line, but that is not
- guaranteed to happen or even be desirable.)
-
- > What are maps & what do they mean to me?
-
- Look in comp.mail.maps, especially at the file README. The maps are a
- description of the connectivity of thousands of UUCP sites. They can be
- used by hand to manually create a bang-path ("!" address), or they can be
- processed with the pathalias program for automatic determination of the
- "best" path to every site in the maps.
-
- Once you have a published map entry, you can start giving your address as
- johnl@forthd.UUCP. Anyone who sees that will have to use the maps, either
- manually or automatically, to route messages to you.
-
- --
- Stephen Trier
- Network Services Engineering, IRIS/INS/Telecom "Dessine-moi un mutton"
- Case Western Reserve University - Le Prince
- trier@ins.cwru.edu
-