Xref: utzoo news.admin:4092 news.sysadmin:1701 comp.mail.uucp:2371 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!vsi1!lmb From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Rerouters again (was: Dangerous hole in Usenet!) Message-ID: <1251@vsi1.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 88 17:01:33 GMT References: <1227@vsi1.UUCP> <871@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> Reply-To: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA Lines: 18 In article <871@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> dww@acer.UUCP (David Wright) writes: =In a later article Larry notes that only 1% of sites have mailed him to =ask about it. I wonder how many have actually done so, but not got =to him? I've tried 3 times now: once to lmb@vsi1.uucp, once to the =address in his sig (via ames), and once to an address made out of his Path =converted to % form. All three bounced from either ames or from altnet =with 'bad system name', e.g. I would be curious to see bounces from ames. As far as altnet, this is one of the reasons why rerouters are COMPLETELY wrong. We eliminated our connection to them after they had been on autopilot for several months. I submitted a new map entry, but, of course, no one from Altos has. After I started getting complaints from people trying to reply to the original subject, I sent some mail to our map coordinator. Meanwhile, anyone forced to send mail through a rerouter who thinks that uunet!altnet!vsi1 is the best path is completely out of luck. -- Larry Blair ames!vsi1!lmb lmb%vsi1.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov