Jeff Dean <jeff@aids-unix.ARPA> (01/18/85)
all of the usenet mail we've been seeing seems to have switched over to the "domain name style" addressing. what used to be "foo!bar!you" is now "you@bar.UUCP". unfortunately, those of us who are not on usenet or uucp have difficulty in responding to messages with those addresses; with the old (explicit) addressing, all we had to do was to send the message with the full pathname through a gateway machine. is there any way of achieving the same thing with the new style addresses? jd
Ron Natalie <ron@BRL-TGR.ARPA> (01/18/85)
The USENET gateway is responsable for this. To respond to these in the interim use the addres "foo%bar.UUCP@BRL-TGR". BRL has volunteered to provide the officiousness to allow UUCP to become a domain for DDN. It seemed that the amount of time necessary to make this happen is about the same as it would take to write a program that would reliably mung the address into something appropriate. After the DDN name server for UUCP gets established, mail would be routed to the USENET gateway that was most appropriate (i.e. on the right side of the country). -ROn
"James M. Galvin" <galvin@udel-dewey.ARPA> (01/18/85)
> all of the usenet mail we've been seeing seems to have switched over to the > "domain name style" addressing. what used to be "foo!bar!you" is now > "you@bar.UUCP". unfortunately, those of us who are not on usenet or uucp have > difficulty in responding to messages with those addresses; with the old > (explicit) addressing, all we had to do was to send the message with the full > pathname through a gateway machine. is there any way of achieving the same > thing with the new style addresses? Well, we are also an ARPA site, and Bboard messages do not have an appropriately "munged" address for us. However, mail is easily responded to by changing the '@' to a '%' and appending '@brl-tgr.ARPA' to the address. Thus, your example becomes "you%bar..UUCP@brl-tgr.ARPA".