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- From: kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 23:13:01 GMT
- Organization: Penn State, Laboratory for Elementary Particle Science
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- References: <5w43wB5w165w@willard.atl.ga.us> <1ilqa3INNhfh@wintermute.phys.psu.edu> <1993Jan10.141201.22273@blilly.uucp>
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- In article <1993Jan10.141201.22273@blilly.uucp> lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly) writes:
- >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.
-
- Like what?
-
- >>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.
-
- Most BITNET sites also have domain names. Besides, BITNET is dying as of late.
- In the past year more nodes have been dropped than added. The UUCP addressing
- scheme just doesn't make sense today. It would probably be best if UUCP died
- 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.
-
- It would be nice if there _was_ a way to gate mail painlessly, but there isn't.
- Besides, as it's been pointed out, a lot of the map data is incorrect. How are
- we supposed to route mail to a network that doesn't have correct internal
- routing data?
-
- --Ken
-