Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: smail Message-ID: <7534@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 13:08:56 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.7534 Posted: Tue Jan 13 13:08:56 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Jan-87 01:07:54 EST References: <14227@amdcad.UUCP> <3232@cbosgd.ATT.COM> <1442@blia.BLI.COM> Reply-To: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) Organization: DEC Western Research Lines: 19 Keywords: decwrl, UUCP novice Xref: mnetor comp.mail.headers:81 comp.mail.uucp:132 decwrl is a USENET backbone site. USENET does not necessarily have anything at all to do with uucp. We also happen to be a major uucp hub in Silicon Valley, and we have several people who put a lot of work into making sure that decwrl works smoothly for uucp. I suspect that the reason Mark thinks that we think we are not a serious uucp site is that we choose not to perform automatic routing. We refuse to process addresses of the form foo@baz.UUCP. This is a conscious decision on our part, based on our observations that the automatic routing database has a lot of garbage in it, and that it will frequently route messages into hyperspace. The quality of the database is improving, and we are considering making the change to our software to turn on automatic routing. Brian Reid DEC Western Research uucp, DEC E-NET, ARPAnet, CSnet