lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) (06/11/88)
[ Note: Followups to news.admin ] In article <1316@cblpf.ATT.COM> attnews@ihnp4.att.com (Harold Jackson) writes: >Effective September 1, 1988, pass-through email will be returned to the >sender. We may install software to generate warnings before then, so >people won't suddenly be surprised. We will update the UUCP map >immediately. Will the AT&T sites also be dropping off the USENET backbone? If the AT&T sites continue to propogate news internally, and pass those articles in and out via the few remaining gateways, there's going to be a hell of a lot of mail bouncing at the gateways when someone tries to reply to a news article, and their news software uses the Path: to generate the return address. I agree that these sites should smarten up their mailers, however we're still living and working in the "real world" ... (sigh) The only solution I can see to this bouncing mail problem is for AT&T to drop off the backbone. [ Nice paragraph formatting, eh? Maybe unbundling troff isn't all that much of a bad thing after all :-) ] -- {alberta,utzoo,uunet}!ncc!lyndon lyndon@Nexus.CA
brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (06/13/88)
If AT&T doesn't drop off the backbone, it might not be a bad thing. People would finally install smail and domain name handlers, instead of waiting to get around to it. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473 "USENET -- the world's least important network."