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From: Stef@NRTC.NORTHROP.COM (Einar Stefferud)
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Subject: Re: an apology to Steve, and more discussion ...
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Date: 20 Jul 89 19:06:00 GMT
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Hello Christian -- I don't see how .US with its STATE oriented
substructure is any more "dreadful" than .DE with its missing ORG units,
or .FR with ...  

On the other hand, I believe it has always been one of the objectives of
RFC987 to support the use of the DNS records (e.g., X400 and MX) in ways
such as you describe.  I expect that this is fully preserved in the
latest version of RFC987(88).  Best...\Stef