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- From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
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- Subject: Re: Reply-To: rewrite
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- Date: 9 Sep 92 11:58:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.123136.18398@visionware.co.uk> chris@visionware.co.uk (Chris Davies) writes:
- >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.
-
- The backwards domain is dying and faster then I had guessed it would...
- A significant number of *.ac.uk sites now use SMTP directly to the rest
- of the Internet, avoiding any non-local rewriting. Certainly, here at
- Warwick, delivery of local mail is in 822 order, not backwards...
- Grey Book mail is being ousted by a combination of SMTP and X.400(88).
- I bet you can't guess which is the official political line, and which
- one will survive for longer than *THEY* would like :-)
-
- Cheers,
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