Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!galvin@udel-dewey.ARPA From: "James M. Galvin"Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: mail to .uucp sites Message-ID: <7504@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 07:01:30 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7504 Posted: Fri Jan 18 07:01:30 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 01:50:16 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 12 > all of the usenet mail we've been seeing seems to have switched over to the > "domain name style" addressing. what used to be "foo!bar!you" is now > "you@bar.UUCP". unfortunately, those of us who are not on usenet or uucp have > difficulty in responding to messages with those addresses; with the old > (explicit) addressing, all we had to do was to send the message with the full > pathname through a gateway machine. is there any way of achieving the same > thing with the new style addresses? Well, we are also an ARPA site, and Bboard messages do not have an appropriately "munged" address for us. However, mail is easily responded to by changing the '@' to a '%' and appending '@brl-tgr.ARPA' to the address. Thus, your example becomes "you%bar..UUCP@brl-tgr.ARPA".