I believe that the reason for this failure is that DISTribute is uppercasing
the userid, and since UUCP is case sensative, it fails.
 
Bill
 
>What do  you think about  this nice  UNIX gateway, which  forwards interactive
>messages to UUCP  only to complain that the path  you specified was incorrect,
>you naughty  boy, and to send  you back a  BSMTP REPLY in  a file? I got  6 of
>these already /Eric
>
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>bad system name: AMES
>uux failed. code 68
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