austin.ibm.com

[Fletcher Mattox]

In article <4279 at awdprime.UUCP> dcheney at dcheney.austin.ibm.com (David J. Cheney) writes:

>The best way to find out mail paths to a specific user (AWD has for some 
>time had the uucp mail path:
>  @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!<machine>.austin.ibm.com!<user>
>) is to call the person and ask.  We are evaluating alternative approaches 
>to solving this problem. 

Can someone please explain to me why IBM doesn't simply advertise
MX records which point to cs.utexas.edu for all these "internal" 
hosts?   I will happily forward all such mail via the !-path above.
This would go a long way toward fixing the wretched state of
email to IBM Austin.  All those mail and news headers would suddenly
start working!  Heck, I could save several hours a month by not
having to explain to dozens of people why their mail to IBM bounces.
(David's suggestion to phone the person notwithstanding, my mailbox
tells me that many folks simply ask <postmaster at cs.utexas.edu>).

I make this suggestion annually, by the way.  Who knows, maybe I'll 
get lucky one of these years.