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- From: bruce@blilly.uucp (Bruce Lilly)
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- References: <dgjTrATKBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> <5w43wB5w165w@willard.atl.ga.us> <1ilqa3INNhfh@wintermute.phys.psu.edu>
- Organization: Bruce Lilly
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 14:12:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.141201.22273@blilly.uucp>
- Reply-To: lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly)
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- In article <1ilqa3INNhfh@wintermute.phys.psu.edu>,
- posted to comp.mail.uucp,
- kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein) wrote:
- >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've seen a few reasonable methods presented here.
-
- >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?".
-
- The answer (to "Why should we bother") is that if you want mail between
- different mail systems to work, you have to find a way to make it work. That
- applies not only to mail from Inernet sites to UUCP sites without Internet
- domain names, but to BITNET sites without Internet domain names and to X.400
- addressees as well. It also applies to the reverse direction, and indeed the
- UUCP maps do provide a means to get mail from the UUCP world to BITNET and
- to at least some parts of the Internet. A chauvinistic "let the rest of the
- world convert to the Internet way of doing things" is no more appropriate
- than the "let them eat cake" which has been attributed to Marie Antoinette.
-
- >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.
-
- Great. Let's all use pure X.400 addresses for everything. :-) :-) :-) :-)
- Different transport methods *do* use different addressing formats. Have
- you ever tried to get the U.S. Postal Service to deliver a letter to
- "kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu" (without a name, street address, P.O. Box number,
- or ZIP code)?
-
-
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