Path: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!brian
From: brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: why you should say "-d rutgers -d sun" in your pathalias command line
Message-ID: <879@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
Date: 18 Aug 88 03:58:50 GMT
References: <676@bacchus.DEC.COM> <881@vsi1.UUCP> <10135@e.ms.uky.edu> <60@minya.UUCP> <8528@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn)
Organization: NCR Canada Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario
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In article <8528@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) replies:
>> [stuff about replies using a news path]
>
>Nope.  Here's the Path: line as it arrived here:
>Path: ulowell!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!ima!minya!jc

gawd!  How could anyone want to reply using that path?!?

>A reply from here would go to mit-eddie!minya!jc.  Not a news path.

Much better. Score one for smart mailers choosing the best path.
My thoughts are with Bob on this one.


Brian.

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