Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:1929 news.sysadmin:990 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!noao!grandi From: grandi@noao.edu (Steve Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Be cautious about declaring yourself a gateway if on Internet Message-ID: <895@noao.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 00:39:29 GMT References: <2488@epimass.EPI.COM> <29499@oliveb.olivetti.com> Reply-To: grandi@noao.edu (Steve Grandi) Distribution: na Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ Lines: 23 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. > >What's the matter? You don't like sending mail to Stanford via Colorado >and Arizona? :-) > Hmm; no wonder I have all this traffic to wso! Things are particularly clogged up right now since wso isn't answering the phone. I've manually gone through the messages waiting for wso and revectored those meant for someone@somewhere.stanford.edu via the Internet. I've put a hack in my sendmail.cf so that mail sent to wso!string will now be sent to string@wso.stanford.edu so messages should now bounce much faster! An amusing note: Rick Bogart, the postmaster at wso, had sent a map update which no longer had the offending gateway line to cbosgd!uucpmap which got bounced to my machine awaiting a connection to wso! I revectored this message to uucpmap@rutgers.edu... -- Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ, 602-325-9228 UUCP: {arizona,decvax,ncar}!noao!grandi or uunet!noao.edu!grandi Internet: grandi@noao.edu SPAN/HEPNET: NOAO::GRANDI (NOAO=5355)