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From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Be cautious about declaring yourself a gateway if on Internet
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Date: 23 Sep 88 23:24:25 GMT
References: <2488@epimass.EPI.COM> <29499@oliveb.olivetti.com> <697@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
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>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.

If I'm within a couple hops of a uucp-only .edu domain, sending mail
for it across the net to (for example) uunet and uunet sending it back
seems like a real waste of time and links.  It's going to have to go
across uucp links anyway -- why bother the gateway sites with the
traffic and why bother the arpanet with the traffic?





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