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- From: kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 06:11:15 GMT
- Organization: Penn State, Laboratory for Elementary Particle Science
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- In article <5w43wB5w165w@willard.atl.ga.us> dawson@willard.atl.ga.us (Willard Dawson) writes:
- >> 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.
-
- The problem is (as it has been explained MANY times) that these
- inconsistencies exist because no one has come up with a reasonable method for
- people on the Internet to route mail to the UUCP network.
-
- I hate to be rude, but I feel that the question we should be asking here
- is not "How can we do this?", but rather "Why should we bother?". Sure,
- there's lots of entries in the UUCP maps, but it's pretty obvious that the
- current trend is to get registered in a domain. How many entries in the maps
- are even correct anymore? UUCP is fine as a transport mechanism, but as a
- network I don't think it can cut it anymore.
-
- >> 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...)
-
- I don't think he was saying that you shouldn't be able to find out the
- transport method, just that you should be able to use the same addressing
- scheme no matter if you're using UUCP, SMTP, or carrier pigeon.
-
- --Ken
-