🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1ilqa3INNhfh@wintermute.phys.psu.edu> kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein) writes:
>In article <5w43wB5w165w@willard.atl.ga.us> dawson@willard.atl.ga.us (Willard Dawson) writes:
>I hate to be rude, but I feel that the question we should be asking here
>is not "How can we do this?", but rather "Why should we bother?".  Sure,
>there's lots of entries in the UUCP maps, but it's pretty obvious that the
>current trend is to get registered in a domain.  How many entries in the maps
>are even correct anymore?  UUCP is fine as a transport mechanism, but as a
>network I don't think it can cut it anymore.
>
>I don't think he was saying that you shouldn't be able to find out the
>transport method, just that you should be able to use the same addressing
>scheme no matter if you're using UUCP, SMTP, or carrier pigeon.

I have to agree with this post. One addressing scheme. Get those uucp
hosts FQDN's. This can easily be handled by the site that connects them
to the internet.

The UUCP maps date back to the days when System V, Xenix et al where shipped
with mail software that did not understand anything other than uucp 
addressing and uucp as the only transport. 

All of the currently shipping UNIX systems should have modern mail systems
that can be configured to understand FQDN's and use either SMTP or UUCP.
And PD software (smail 3 or smail 2.5) can be used to retrofit older systems.

There is little excuse to continue propagating bang paths or mixed formats.

One place to start might be to add a comment to Emily Postnews or one of
the other FAQ's that suggests that it is not a good idea to propagate 
bang path addresses. I.e. don't put one into your .signature. Use only
your FQDN for email.

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