dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale) (12/02/88)
Every once in a while, a mail message comes through here addressed to someuser%UUCP, probably due to a messed-up mailer on some machine out there in the void. I would expect that anything addressed to a machine "UUCP" would get bounced back to the sender as undeliverable. But - surprise! - it gets sent on to gatech!someuser. The only plausible explanation I can find for this is that gatech is the closest (lowest-cost) gateway for the ".uucp" domain listed in the USENET maps. What I don't understand is why smail finds the uucp DOMAIN when mail is addressed to a SITE named uucp. Before I try to find the code in smail that does this and remove or fix it, does anyone see any valid reason for this transformation between machine name and site name? To gatech, and other machines that list themselves as gateways to the uucp domain, this may account for a certain volume of garbage mail that shows up on your doorstep. Were you aware of it?