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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: MX-registration vs %-hack (was Re: New Host-Requirement RFCs)
Summary: If it works, use it.
Keywords: FLAME
Message-ID: <10078@ucsd.Edu>
Date: 26 Oct 89 05:38:35 GMT
References: <8910201839.AA29376@arcturus.mitre.org> <7696@ditmela.oz> <43522@sgi.sgi.com>
Reply-To: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
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UCSD continues to rewrite outgoing Internet From: lines as
	user%campushost@ucsd.edu
because that is the only format that works with everyone we correspond
with, especially &^*%^&*$ MILNET hosts that are still using the damn
hosts table and will be until the next war.

And I refuse to register all 2000+ of our hosts with the NIC (no doubt
they're overjoyed by that!).

We have MX registrations for all our campus hosts that can receive mail,
and we'll cheerfully accept mail for them in the form
	user@campushost.ucsd.edu
but we aren't going to show that as a return address until I'm well
convinced that I'm not gonna have screaming faculty members phoning me
up to tell me about some babyburner on a FOONLY somewhere on MILNET whose
permanent latrine orderlyXXXX er, system manager says they can't send us
mail because our hostname isn't in their hosts file.  

I've been down that road before.

Warmest personal regards,
	- Brian