Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ogccse!blake!Tomobiki-Cho!mrc From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: New Host-Requirement RFCs Message-ID: <4180@blake.acs.washington.edu> Date: 24 Oct 89 18:24:00 GMT References: <8910201839.AA29376@arcturus.mitre.org> <1989Oct23.173855.1370@utzoo.uucp> Sender: news@blake.acs.washington.edu Organization: Mendou Zaibatsu, Tomobiki-Cho, Butsumetsu-Shi Lines: 19 In article karl@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: >no % >hack (or other ill-advised routing nonsense) has ever been necessary. > >Getting registered is easy. Building a gateway is easy. They're both >too easy to go to the effort of avoiding the issue with things like % >hacks. As one of the originators of the % hack, I'd like to point out that the % hack predated the ability to get registered. The % hack may be ill-advised today, but in its time it was a clean way around a nasty problem. Mark Crispin / 6158 Lariat Loop NE / Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-2020 mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU / MRC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil / (206) 842-2385 Atheist & Proud / 450cc Rebel pilot -- a step up from 250cc's!!! tabesaserarenakerebanaranakattarashii...kisha no kisha ga kisha de kisha-shita sumomo mo momo, momo mo momo, momo ni mo iroiro aru uraniwa ni wa niwa, niwa ni wa niwa niwatori ga iru