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Re: Could someone explain this for me?

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From: Chris Lewis
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1989 06:38
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In article <89Nov9.144803est.2778@neat.cs.toronto.edu> rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen) writes:
>clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis) writes:

>>H'm, smail 2.5 expands that out to:

>>    yunexus!utai!yorkvm1.bitnet!evan

>This is a bug in smail2.5.  I don't have the fix.  People run into this
>bug all the time and few think to blame smail.

I sort of figured it was, but I was hoping for a pronouncement from
someone who knows as much about it as you do.

Thanks Rayan.  I'll try out one of the patches and let people know
what happens.

>>	- Are .ca and .on.ca bogus?  From the point of view of the UUCP
>>	  maps they appear to be simply an exercise in inventing new
>>	  and non-functional naming.  They certainly don't seem to work 
>>	  anywhere as well as the ol' "telly!....".  Though,
>>	  of course from other networks they are pretty important.

Does the fact that you left this in without comment is a comment in
itself? ;-)  Should I have not commented on the commentless nature of
this comment?  Never mind.
-- 
Chris Lewis, Elegant Communications Inc.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!telly!eci386!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
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Subject: Re: Could someone explain this for me?
Message-ID: <735@ecicrl.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 89 06:38:25 GMT
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