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- From: dawson@willard.atl.ga.us (Willard Dawson)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <5w43wB5w165w@willard.atl.ga.us>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 19:44:39 EST
- References: <dgjTrATKBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au>
- Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
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- djk@boombox.apana.org.au (David Keegel) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- Granted, that might make sense. (One possible exception to that is, if
- it were possible for you to specify the delivery mode [airmail? overland?
- each are usually options for the traditional mail, as per your own example])
-
- > 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.
-
- It's not that UUCP is doing things differently, it's that inconsistency
- amongst Internet sites (some of whom treat .UUCP as a "valid" domain, by
- routing mail to such sites, and some who do not) that causes me to be
- concerned.
-
- > My philosophy is that where possible the transport layer used between
- > my and my neighbor should be invisible to everyone except ourselves.
-
- A valid opinion. Not one that I share, however. Why should such info
- not be a matter of public record, so that time-to-delivery could be properly
- computed? (Of course, other schemes could be suggested...)
-
- >
- > --
- > <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.
-
-
- --
- dawson@willard.atl.ga.us (Willard Dawson)
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- Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
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