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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
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Subject: Re: AT&T map entry
Summary: Use `smail'!
Message-ID: <142@obie.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 88 01:44:35 GMT
References: <313@psuhcx.psu.edu> <10368@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Organization: the Well of Souls
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In article <313@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) writes:
% Now, can't you just say
% att	.att.com
% and then let internal sites be addressed as xxx.att.com?  It would make
% it a lot easier to check for paths that are going through att that shouldn't
% be, and would make the paths file all that much smaller.

In article <10368@ncc.Nexus.CA>, lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) replies:
> The trouble is the System V mailers don't grok domain addresses. If AT&T
> was to do this, they would have to run software from the GNU project :-)

Right, but `smail' does understand domain names.  Anybody who has a
purely UUCP System V installation and doesn't use smail is lacking some
smarts.  It is very easy to get - it's distributed in comp.sources.unix
fairly often.  Smail is one of the few PD unix tools I've found that
solves more problems than it creates.  Now if we could just get the map
to be a little more realistic.

While we're on the subject, is site tut.cis.ohio.edu passing ANY mail to
ANY other sites at all?  Everything I've sent through them lately has
bounced, to the point where I re-ran pathalias with tut marked as
'dead.'

	Wes Peters
	System baby-sitter for `Obie'
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