Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!uwvax!dave From: dave@uwvax.UUCP (Dave Cohrs) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: I am for splitting up the UUCP domain. Message-ID: <143@uwvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 22:52:07 EST Article-I.D.: uwvax.143 Posted: Fri Mar 8 22:52:07 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 06:45:51 EST References: <1184@ukma.UUCP> <467@down.FUN> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 29 > incidentally, uwisc is the arpa name for uwvax. other machines do the > same thing: umcp-cs == maryland, bostonu == bu-cs, suny-sb == sbcs. > (i think i have the last two right.) this seems a consummately stupid > thing to do, and messes up pathalias, since the host name depends on > the route. > > i'll never understand why people do things this way. > > peter Especially concerning uwisc -- that local-network entry was not set up correctly (not that it matters, if mail gets to uwvax, aliases will get it to its actual destination -- no matter). I think I've sent a correct version of the uwisc network to the uucpmap'ers, so when the next map comes out, it will be correct. The problem is, that corrections don't come out immediately, so when someone sends updates/corrections, you have to wait three months for them. Not that it really bothers me, I can understand the job it is to keep those maps up to date. By the by, uwisc is *not* uwvax's ARPAnet name, wisc-rsch is. uwisc is a backwards-compatable ARPAnet alias for wisc-crys and is also the official name of our local network. I know this seems confusing, it confuses me sometimes :-) -- dave cohrs ...!{allegra,harvard,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!dave dave@wisc-rsch.arpa (bug? what bug? that's a feature!)