Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!pyramid!voder!blia!ted From: ted@blia.BLI.COM (Ted Marshall) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: smail Message-ID: <1442@blia.BLI.COM> Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 18:57:24 EST Article-I.D.: blia.1442 Posted: Mon Jan 12 18:57:24 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 06:43:19 EST References: <14227@amdcad.UUCP> <3232@cbosgd.ATT.COM> Organization: Britton Lee, Los Gatos, CA Lines: 41 Keywords: decwrl, UUCP novice Summary: I thought decwrl was a Usenet backbone site Xref: mnetor comp.mail.headers:76 comp.mail.uucp:130 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. I am a Usenet/UUCP novice user (I've been following this discussion because I'm facinated by this free exchange of information across the world enabled by Usenet and UUCP). Now I understood that to send mail to another UUCP site, I needed to generate a path from my site to a backbone site, then through the backbone to a path given by the recipient. For example, if someone says that their address is "...mcnc!xxx!yyy", I will use the following address: mtxinu!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!mcnc!xxx!yyy |to-backbone-|-across-backbone--|to-recip Gee, what do you know, I just used decwrl as a UUCP forwarder. This says one of three things to me: (1) that's not how you are supposed to do intra-UUCP mail (in which case, please tell me the correct way) or (2) decwrl shouldn't be listed as on the backbone or (3) decwrl is a little closer to UUCP than Mark indicated. Please do not get me wrong. This is not a flame. My major flame is that despite the mod.newuser postings and available documentation (that I've found), conventions on UUCP are still very hard for a novice to learn. (I guess that shows everyone's UNIX background (1/2 :->)). =============================================================================== Ted Marshall Britton Lee, Inc. p-mail: 14600 Winchester Blvd, Los Gatos, Ca 95030 voice: (408)378-7000 uucp: ...!ucbvax!mtxinu!blia!ted ARPA: mtxinu!blia!ted@Berkeley.EDU disclaimer: These opinions are my own and may not reflect those of my employer; I leave them alone and they leave me alone. fortune for today: Justice is incidental to law and order. -- J. Edgar Hoover