Xref: utzoo news.admin:3244 news.config:839 Path: utzoo!linus!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!lll-tis!oodis01!uplherc!sp7040!obie!wes From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.config 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 Lines: 30 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' -- {hpda, uwmcsd1}!sp7040!obie!wes "Happiness lies in being priviledged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Robert A. Heinlein --