Re: !-path rerouting: One reason for doing so

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From: Joe Buck
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1988 02:35

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In article <444@splut.UUCP> jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) writes:
>Uh, Joe...if I define INTERNET, how do I keep news from trying
>'mail buck@epimass.epi.com' if I reply to your message?
>(If the answer is RTFM, please tell me where in the FM. :-)

It's in there (in the 2.11 news installation guide).  Check out the
instructions on how to build the "mailpaths" file.  (There's also an
article posted every month to news.admin explaining the details).  

Say you have a plain UUCP mailer, but you talk to uunet.  Just
have the following line in /usr/lib/news/mailpaths:

internet	uunet!%s

Then a reply to my article will go to uunet!epimass.epi.com!jbuck
and will work fine.

The monthly article posted to news.admin gives the list of who
will accept internet mail from all comers.  In addition, if your
news feed has a full pathalias database running, you may be able
to obtain special permission to say

internet	news-feed!%s

But ask first!
-- 
- Joe Buck  {uunet,ucbvax,sun,<smart-site>}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck
	    Old Internet mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!beta!hc!ames!oliveb!epimass!jbuck

References: <2014@epimass.EPI.COM> <444@splut.UUCP>

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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: !-path rerouting: One reason for doing so
Message-ID: <2040@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 88 02:35:20 GMT
References: <2014@epimass.EPI.COM> <444@splut.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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