Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!emv From: emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: .uucp going to other than %s Message-ID: <703@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> Date: 24 Sep 88 23:41:06 GMT References: <315@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US> <5616@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <5619@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Sender: usenet@mailrus.cc.umich.edu Reply-To: emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor Lines: 17 In article <5619@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> wisner@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Bill Wisner) writes: >>Several gateways to .UUCP are defined in the maps, including >>rutgers and uunet. So what? > >So defining those gateways is not necessary. > so don't include those maps when you build your pathalias database. I think they're all in d.Top or what-have-you. Every site should probably write their own d.Top file to fit local knowlege of the world - in many cases it would just be as simple to punt all of the official top-level USA domains to your nearest NSFnet gateway, and all of the official top-level non-USA domains to your nearest international gateway, probably uunet.