Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!kitty!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: Will it ever work? Message-ID: <366@baylor.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 16:34:12 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.366 Posted: Mon Aug 12 16:34:12 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 00:14:33 EDT References: <47300002@hpfclo.UUCP> Organization: Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria Lines: 13 The only way a global change can be made in UUCP routing is if some kind soul sits down & writes a mailer that's at least a powerful as sendmail (so people will have incentive to use it) that supports this syntax & posts it in net.sources with the admonition to "pass it on to non-news sites" at least once a month for a year. The alternative, making gateways support ! routing properly, is not nearly as hard (though still not trivial). And if I send something to foo!bar!zot.arpa!baz, should the reverse route be baz!zot.arpa!bar!foo? Or baz!zot!bar.arpa!foo? -- Peter da Silva (the mad Australian) UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076