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- From: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <C0pG4u.1Lx@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 19:43:40 GMT
- References: <5w43wB5w165w@willard.atl.ga.us> <1ilqa3INNhfh@wintermute.phys.psu.edu> <C0Lw2o.H82@wimsey.bc.ca>
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- In article <C0Lw2o.H82@wimsey.bc.ca> sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:
- >In article <1ilqa3INNhfh@wintermute.phys.psu.edu> kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein) writes:
- >>In article <5w43wB5w165w@willard.atl.ga.us> dawson@willard.atl.ga.us (Willard Dawson) writes:
- >>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.
- >>
- >>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.
- >
- >I have to agree with this post. One addressing scheme. Get those uucp
- >hosts FQDN's. This can easily be handled by the site that connects them
- >to the internet.
- >
- That is not as easy as it sounds. There are thousands of UUCP sites who
- are multiple hops from the Internet via multiple paths. The host that
- eventually drops their mail into the Internet may be different for each
- message. That host may be totally unaware that they are the connection.
- In this case, what site acts as the MX? The originating site only has an
- agreement to exchange mail with it's neighbors. Now what?
-
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