[net.notes] paths and Pp

emjej@uokvax.UUCP (06/08/84)

#N:uokvax:11300004:000:648
uokvax!emjej    Jun  8 11:52:00 1984

I post this note here because, based on previous experience, "nfgripes"
on the machine I am on appears to operationally be a black hole.

Alas, I do not know what version of notes we are running here, but I
do know that notes behaves as if this machine were connected to every
other Usenet machine on earth, to wit: when I [Pp] a note described as
from user (at bozo), I see

	mail bozo!user

which will practically never work, because this machine (on which I
am) is connected to very few other machines. I'd appreciate it greatly
if [Pp] worked. (No, I don't have access to the source--for notes
or for much of anything else.)

						James Jones

ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (06/18/84)

> Alas, I do not know what version of notes we are running here, but I
> do know that notes behaves as if this machine were connected to every
> other Usenet machine on earth, to wit: when I [Pp] a note described as
> from user (at bozo), I see
> 
> 	mail bozo!user

Notes  only  keeps the  source  system and user name.  Set  MAILER=<your
favorite  autorouter>  and build  yourself a  database.  Notes will pass
mail  through  MAILER,  you see.  For  example, I use  mkpath  and nmail
(MAILER=nmail),  actually nowadays  pathalias and nmail, plus some other
scripts for converting net.news.map into pathalias input.

Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
{ihnp4 | hplabs}!hpfcla!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"