jeffj@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (jeffrey.n.jones) (01/20/90)
I just noticed this for the first time and was wondering how it
works, ...!best!guess? Are the ... the where you put your machine
of choice (att,uunet)? Or is cbnewsm smart enough to figure what goes
there?
Jeff Joneseps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (01/21/90)
In article <8707@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> jeffj@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (jeffrey.n.jones) writes: >What does this mean, {what,is,this}!got!me? Are those optional paths >in the curly que's or is at least one of them required to send the >message.I am guessing that at least one of them is required. Am I right? It's a convention for "pick one of these." Read it as what!got!me -or- is!got!me -or- this!got!me You NEVER, NEVER, NEVER try to feed "{site,site,site}" to a mailer--it will spit it out. In article <8708@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> jeffj@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (jeffrey.n.jones) writes: >I just noticed this for the first time and was wondering how it >works, ...!best!guess? Are the ... the where you put your machine >of choice (att,uunet)? Or is cbnewsm smart enough to figure what goes >there? ... is a convention too. You (possibly) have to replace it with "whatever works from your site." I can't speak for cbnewsm. Once upon a time, there were "well-known" sites (such as the legendary inhp4) that talked to so many places that ...!inhp4!yoursite!yourname was used by its neighbors. The closest thing there is today is uunet, but uunet is *not* an arbitrary uucp gateway--it serves its PAYING subscribers. (However, within AT&T, I suspect you can use "att" this way! Non-AT&T people CAN NOT pass mail though att. Some people try because they have broken newsreaders that try to reply through Path: headers instead of Reply-To: (or From:). News paths often fail outright if used for mail, and are nearly always suboptimal anyway.) A couple of points: 1) Your site has a domain name--cbnewsm.ATT.COM. That is sufficient for anyone in the world to know how to get to you. 2) All uucp sites are supposed to be registered with the UUCP Mapping Project (see comp.mail.maps) with unique names. This, in conjunction with the pathalias program, allows cbnewsm.uucp to be sufficient as well (although the domain name is preferred). -=EPS=-
king@cell.mot.COM (Steven King) (01/22/90)
In article <8708@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> jeffj@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (jeffrey.n.jones,ca1028,) writes: >I just noticed this for the first time and was wondering how it >works, ...!best!guess? Are the ... the where you put your machine >of choice (att,uunet)? Or is cbnewsm smart enough to figure what goes >there? > Jeff Jones An address like "...!uunet!motcid!king" (to use my own .signature as an example) generally means, "Take your favorite path to get to uunet, then tack on !motcid!king as the best path to get from uunet to me." In this case, most every other mailer knows how to get to uunet so addressing mail to just "uunet!motcid!king" will get it to me. There may be the oddball mailer that doesn't know where uunet is, so if you're at one of those sites you'll need to figure out the at least part of the path yourself. Say, you're at the site "foo" which doesn't know anything about "uunet". However, you do know where "bar" is, and "bar" knows about "uunet", so address mail to "bar!uunet!motcid!king". -- ---------------------------------------------------+--------------------------- If there's a byte of data in the computer but no | Steve King (708) 991-8056 pointer is pointing to it, then it isn't really | ...uunet!motcid!king there. | ...ddsw1!palnet!stevek