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- From: djk@boombox.apana.org.au (David Keegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <dgjTrATKBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 21:27:41 +1100
- References: <725767101snx@crynwr.com> <1TauwB3w165w@willard.atl.ga.us>
- Reply-To: David.Keegel@apana.org.au
- Organization: Private site, Melbourne, Australia.
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- In <1TauwB3w165w@willard.atl.ga.us> dawson@willard.atl.ga.us (Willard Dawson) writes:
- >> .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?
-
- But what is this concept of a "networking system"? I consider all
- of the addresses that I've had to be part of the same "networking
- system". The best word I know for it is "The Matrix".
-
- I've had accounts on machines that were connected to The Internet
- with TCP/IP, ACSnet with SUN-III or MHSnet, other sites with UUCP,
- APANA with UUCP or often a combination of the above. I could send
- mail from one to the other. If I can get them to work, I can soon
- add DECnet and All-In-1 to the list.
-
- If I want to send mail to a particular machine, I don't want to have
- to care whether it connects to the world with UUCP or TCP/IP or avian
- carrier. And I certainly don't want to change my address book because
- they decided to use SLIP instead of UUCP as a transport to their link.
-
- If UUCP is so different to every other transport layer in the world
- that it causes sites which use it to be a separate "networking system"
- that cannot sensibly correspond with other networking systems, then I
- don't think it's doing a very good job.
-
- My philosophy is that where possible the transport layer used between
- my and my neighbor should be invisible to everyone except ourselves.
-
- --
- <David.Keegel@apana.org.au> <werple!tuple!boombox!djk> Tel: +61 3 593-1460
- aka: djk@boombox.apana.org.au, djk@cs.mu.oz.au. Formerly: djk@bby.com.au.
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