Re: Mixed format addresses

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From: David Keegel
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:25

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In <C0199E.5Kx@puma.uucp> puma.uucp!john@becca.rain.com (John Meissen) writes:
>In article <BzzD0F.2wM@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>>Uucp mail doesn't have any concept of "feeds".  There are only neighbors.
>>Perhaps you are thinking of news.

>You are picking nits here.

>My news and mail come over the same transport. My "neighbor" uses UUCP to
>"feed" data to me via modem. I could care less if it's news or mail.

>Actually, I have many neighbors. Only one is a connection to the outside
>world. That is my feed site.

Thanks.  Yes, if my node has a unique neighbor (whether it be UUCP or
something else like ACSnet) through which traffic to/from The Internet
goes, I call that a "feed".  If my node has more than one path to The
Internet, things become more complicated.

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<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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From: djk@boombox.apana.org.au (David Keegel)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 12:25:07 +1100
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