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  1. Xref: sparky comp.bbs.waffle:5554 comp.mail.uucp:2427
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!werple.apana.org.au!tuple.apana.org.au!boombox!djk
  3. From: djk@boombox.apana.org.au (David Keegel)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
  5. Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
  6. Message-ID: <KEQPrAmGBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au>
  7. Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 20:04:10 +1100
  8. References: <KGmNrAOCBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> <1992Dec8.190000.21254@nwnexus.WA.COM> <BzMIIu.Lnp@cs.psu.edu>
  9. Reply-To: David.Keegel@apana.org.au
  10. Organization: Private site, Melbourne, Australia.
  11. Lines: 18
  12.  
  13. In <BzMIIu.Lnp@cs.psu.edu> fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
  14. >In article <KGmNrAOCBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> David.Keegel@apana.org.au writes:
  15. >|The problem with smarthost: hishost!bighost is that mail for myneighbor
  16. >|(ie: myhost!hishost!myneighbor!user) goes up to bighost.
  17.  
  18. >Only if you don't have your PATHS file set up properly.
  19.  
  20. I thought the main point of having a smarthost was to reduce or eliminate
  21. the PATHS file.  Personally, I don't want to update a file every time
  22. my feed adds another site, I just want to send everything to my feed.
  23. If they don't recognise it, they do the same (as long as there is a
  24. "tree" structure, and each node knows all the sites "below" it).
  25.  
  26. Being a leaf node, I don't ever intend to have anything in my PATHS file.
  27.  
  28. -- 
  29. <David.Keegel@apana.org.au>  <werple!tuple!boombox!djk>  Tel: +61 3 593-1460
  30. aka: djk@boombox.apana.org.au, djk@cs.mu.oz.au.  Formerly: djk@bby.com.au.
  31.