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Re: Could someone explain this for me?

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From: Rayan Zachariassen
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1989 19:48
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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 don't know why the utai!yorkvm1.bitnet route is being used, it doesn't
make sense with the map data I put out, however I will check it for the
upcoming issue.

>	- 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.

>I thought domains were supposed to make the maps smaller!

They do (for large sites) but for every progress there is regress
(in this case, broken software)
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From: rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen)
Subject: Re: Could someone explain this for me?
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