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- From: dawson@willard.atl.ga.us (Willard Dawson)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <1TauwB3w165w@willard.atl.ga.us>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 01:35:35 EST
- References: <725767101snx@crynwr.com>
- Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
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- nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
-
- > In article <BzzGKp.4L5@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us writes:
- >
- > In article <BzxvDC.CoK.2@cs.cmu.edu> Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu writes:
- >
- > >There is far too much ad hoc support for .uucp out there, with
- > >the result that there has been no real incentive offered.
- >
- > Perhaps not everyone shares the opinion that there is only one email syste
- > and that users within it have no reason to want to connect to anyone
- > outside of it.
- >
- > There *is* only one email system. Check out advertisements in
- > computer journals. IF they list an email address, it is their FQDN.
-
- Just as a wee little counterpoint, many also use x.400 addressing.
- (or are you only reading journals from the US?)
-
- > .UUCP sucks because implies that a particular transport is being
- > used. Names, addresses, routes, and transports are all distinct
- > characteristics.
-
- ... unique to each different networking system in use. *Not* every
- networking system in the Universe uses the FQDN business. This is
- Karl_Kleinpaste's point?
-
- >
- > -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
- > Crynwr Software Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
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-
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