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- From: djk@boombox.apana.org.au (David Keegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <qVbPrAVBBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 08:53:46 +1100
- References: <BzMpx5.D00@chinet.chi.il.us> <BzMIIu.Lnp@cs.psu.edu> <KGmNrAOCBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> <1992Dec8.190000.21254@nwnexus.WA.COM> <921224.011650.9F1.rusnews.w165w@ricksys.lonestar.org>
- Reply-To: David.Keegel@apana.org.au
- Organization: Private site, Melbourne, Australia.
- Lines: 31
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- In <921224.011650.9F1.rusnews.w165w@ricksys.lonestar.org> rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Richard D. McCombs KB5SNF) writes:
- >les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
-
- >> If the mailer on hishost is smart enough to resolve what it can and
- >> pass the rest on to bighost then you are better off using hishost as
- >> your smarthost instead of hishost!bighost.
-
- >But if his host isn't running software smart enough to do anything but
- >rmail user1
- > or
- >rmail neighbor1!thathost!anotherhost!someuser
-
- Then you tell your feed site that their software is broken (there is
- another word that comes to mind starting with F, but let's keep this
- polite in the first instance :-). I don't mind if a leaf site does
- not have a smarthost or equivalent, but when a site is feeding others
- it's a different ball game.
-
- A site mynode which is prepared to take feeds should be able to resolve:
- user (mynode!user, user@mynode.dom.ain)
- neighbor!user
- neighbor!...!user
- user@neighbor.dom.ain
- and should pass anything it can't handle to another site which can
- either handle it or pass the buck again. If not their users and
- sites who they feed should complain at them until it is fixed or
- mynode realises it should not be a feed.
-
- --
- <David.Keegel@apana.org.au> <werple!tuple!boombox!djk> Tel: +61 3 593-1460
- aka: djk@boombox.apana.org.au, djk@cs.mu.oz.au. Formerly: djk@bby.com.au.
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