earley@modular.UUCP (Joe Earley) (12/10/87)
Hello World, Chris Ott lives at Internet address chris@spock.ame.arizona.edu and UUCP address (relative to me of course) arizona!amethyst!spock!chris. When I reply to one of his articles the following info is given to me in my posting: To: arizona!spock.ame.arizona.edu!chris Subject: Re: Nethack source parts 2 and 12 wanted In-reply-to: your article <545@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu> News-Path: arizona!amethyst!spock!chris ~ ~ ~ I have the #define INTERNET set up in the defs.h file. Must I really edit the To: address in order to properly mail to him properly. Because we are neighbors here in Tucson I really shouldn't care. What I'm trying to get around is editing the News-Path address into the To: field for far away places. And I'ld rather let the Internet router chose the best path anyway. Am I wrong in thinking that the path an article takes in getting here is not the best path to reply to there? I believe I saw that mentioned in the documentation. The mailpaths file has the following entries which are correct: backbone arizona!%s internet arizona!%s What have I missed in setting up news? Also, we are not directly connected to the Internet. Is there a way to get at archive files at ARPA sites? I can't FTP them and I don't have login access to a machine that can. Do I need to rely on the good graces of users who can FTP them and mail them to me? That sort of thing would only clog up my neighbors machine and I'ld like to avoid that. As a last resort I would ask a kind user at an ARPA site to spin a tape for me. I would of course supply the tape and postage both ways. I am new to this sort of thing. We've only had a Unix box since August. The excuses are out of the way so I'll say thanks and that all help is greatly appreciated. Flames will only invite reprisals. -- Joe Earley, Modular Mining Systems USENET: {ihnp4,allegra,cmcl2,noao}!arizona!modular!earley INTERNET: modular!earley@arizona.edu