Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!decuac!avolio 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