lee@kcl-cs.UUCP (Lee McLoughlin) (11/06/84)
West44 is changing its name to kcl-cs in line with the (logical) move of the computer science department to Kings College (London). The associated site westcsr will be incorporated into kcl-cs and will son disappear from general usage. The site westf will remain as it is not a CS Dept. machine. Kcl-cs will run MMDF-2 as its mail system. This means it will be obeying ARPA style addresses and can cope with addresses like: lmcl@ukc.uucp and route it correctly to ukc. It will also reroute any mail to ARPA or JANET to the appropriate gateway so long as the domain is specified. E.g: wstfld@ucl-cs.ac.uk will get to user wstfld at site ucl-cs on JANET foo@bar.arpa will get to user foo at site bar on ARPA bert@ucbvax.uucp will get to user bert at site ucbvax on ARPA Kcl-cs doesn't know where the vast majority of these sites are. It will buck-pass (relay) it to a site who probably does and lets them handle it. A word of warning. An address like: ukc!lmcl@mcvax will now be treated with the '@' taking priority over the '!'. So it will be converted into the path: ukc!mcvax!ukc!lmcl So be carefull. We will also parse: ucl-cs.ac.uk!wstfld bar.arpa!foo ucbvax.uucp!bert as having the same meaning as the above examples. We still run 2.10.1 as I haven't been able to get someone to send me 2.10.2, yet! A lot of us out here would switch if we could! -- UKUUCP SUPPORT Lee McLoughlin <UK>!ukc!lmcl kcl-cs!lee "What you once thought was only a nightmare is now a reality!"