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From: emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Be cautious about declaring yourself a gateway if on Internet
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Date: 21 Sep 88 21:58:13 GMT
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In article <29499@oliveb.olivetti.com> jerry@olivey.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes:
>In article <2488@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>>Sites using the pathalias data generate horrible paths to Stanford
>>University, among other places.  The reason is that Stanford is on the
>>Internet, but one poorly-connected Stanford site is listed as the only
>What's the matter?  You don't like sending mail to Stanford via Colorado
>and Arizona? :-)

pathalias data is the wrong source of information for .edu domain
hosts; the name servers are much more useful and reliable.
filter out all of the .foo.edu information from your pathalias
run and just make sure that the .edu gateway you declare is running
a sendmail with MX records.

.gov, .mil, and .net should be handled similarly.  .com might be
best left in the maps depending on the local density of .com
sites not directly on the internet.

I'm collecting pathalias post-processor filters - mail them
to emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu and I'll summarize and re-post.

--Ed