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From: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: smail
Message-ID: <1139@decuac.DEC.COM>
Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 11:51:35 EST
Article-I.D.: decuac.1139
Posted: Tue Jan 13 11:51:35 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 22:35:52 EST
References: <14227@amdcad.UUCP> <3232@cbosgd.ATT.COM> <1442@blia.BLI.COM>
Organization: DEC SWS, Landover, MD
Lines: 24
Keywords: decwrl, UUCP novice
Summary: usenet backbone != uucp backbone
Xref: mnetor comp.mail.headers:80 comp.mail.uucp:131

In article <1442@blia.BLI.COM>, ted@blia.BLI.COM (Ted Marshall) writes:
> In article <3232@cbosgd.ATT.COM>, mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes:
> > decwrl is primarily on DEC's ENET, and secondarily on the ARPANET.
> > They consider themselves to be only tertiarily on UUCP...
> 
> This is interesting since my 1-December-1986 Usenet backbone map (published
> in news.misc, last updated by spaf@gatech.edu) shows decwrl connecting
> ucbvax, hplabs and decvax.

You mistake Usenet with UUCP mail, which is what is being discussed.
Usenet connectivity does not necessarily mean UUCP connectivity.  As
the posting you refer to says:

     A Usenet "backbone" site is one which exchanges every (non-local) news
     article it receives with at least two other backbone sites; or which is
     the main newsfeed for a particular area (e.g., Australia) and exchanges
     news with at least one other backbone site.  ...

As I stated in another posting, a site has to make some decisions
about "preferred" protocols and go with it.  It is easier for a site
on the Internet to take any domain for which it itself is not an
authority and pass it off to the Internet handler for that domain.

Fred