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- From: chris@visionware.co.uk (Chris Davies)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
- Subject: Re: Reply-To: rewrite
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.123136.18398@visionware.co.uk>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 12:31:36 GMT
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- friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:
- : It occurs to me that, regrettably, a rewrite of the appropriate mail
- : headers is also necessary when transferring mail between the UK and the
- : rest of the world, since they have their domains backwards.
-
- No, No, No!!!!! Some of the academic network (Janet) uses domains
- which happen to be the other way round to the Internet way of doing
- things. The rest of us use Internet domains (or perhaps bang paths if
- absolutely necessary). Life's too short to attempt to do anything with
- uk.ac.* addresses except pass them on to our smart host (uknet.ac.uk).
- However, we can handle some *.ac.uk addresses (which is the way we see
- things). Likewise for most UK commercial sites.
-
- : I wouldn't mind rewrite of the headers so much if the rewrites were any
- : better than the original FQDN! Half the time the rewrite is broken.
-
- Specifically UK academia? Or in general?
-
- Chris
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