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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Address for bug fixes?
Message-ID: <8806011738.AA15523@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 1 Jun 88 17:38:49 GMT
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Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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> What's the correct mail path to get to "expo" from the UUCP domain?

That depends on your mailer.  Many sites have configured their mailers to
accept standard Internet addressing.  Others simply forward all addresses of
the format user@host.subdomain...domain to an Internet host that knows how to
cope.

>                                           I assumed that "mit-eddie" would
> be able to find "expo". I was wrong.

That is because you gave it the wrong name.  The name "expo" is just an 
abbreviation for expo.lcs.mit.edu.  Because it isn't in the same domain as
eddie.mit.edu (the Internet name for mit-eddie), the address
...!mit-eddie!expo!user did not make any sense to eddie's mailer.


> This is the address I sent my request for bug fixes to:
>         "uwvax!ll-xn!mit-eddie!expo!xstuff"

Try uwvax!ll-xn!mit-eddie!expo.lcs.mit.edu!xstuff instead.


Jim Fulton
MIT X Consortium