Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!bbn!husc6!purdue!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Some questions about pathalias and smail Message-ID:Date: 5 Dec 88 11:09:18 GMT References: <236@twwells.uucp> Sender: news@decwrl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 47 In-reply-to: bill@twwells.uucp's message of 4 Dec 88 22:54:03 GMT [Wells] # I believe that the Internet has a chance to better route the message than # I; I'd rather send my messages that go to the Internet to uflorida (or # uunet, when I get my modem and get connected) than some further site. The trick, then, is to keep a file around which contains your local "hints" for pathalias. Stuff you want pathalias to see but which is not in your map entry and also not in the comp.mail.maps data. I call this file "glue.local" and I put into it things like: -> dead sites which are still mentioned in lots of map entries: cbosgd and seismo are/were examples of this; dead {seismo} dead {cbosgd} -> rerouters that I want to pretend are dead; I have a small list of these which I will publish in this group from time to time: rutgers is an example; dead {rutgers} -> sites that bungle From: lines such that mail through them is often unreplyable: sun is an example; dead {sun} -> remote links which I know about but which are not for use by the public: ubvax!vixie used to be an example; ubvax vixie(????) vixie ubvax(????) -> internet wormholes like the one you are trying to use. uflorida .edu, .com, .mil, .net, .org Note that using the internet as a carrier for non-internet traffic is frowned upon -- though anybody with a domain name is "on the internet" for the purpose of this rule. So you could mark your uflorida wormhole as terminal, i.e., uflorida <.edu>, <.com>, <.mil>, <.net>, <.org> ...it's really not going to change anything. These probably _are_ overly discussed issues according to many, but I get a lot of mail from sideline lurkers who are completely dazed by the complexity of it all and I think that a public answer can do only good. Good luck. -- Paul Vixie Work: vixie@decwrl.dec.com decwrl!vixie +1 415 853 6600 Play: paul@vixie.sf.ca.us vixie!paul +1 415 864 7013