Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!bionet!lear From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: New Host-Requirement RFCs Message-ID: Date: 28 Oct 89 09:52:01 GMT References: <1989Oct27.212939.11277@agate.berkeley.edu> <89Oct27.235825edt.2687@neat.cs.toronto.edu> Organization: Natl Computer Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 13 Rayan Zachariassen writes that it isn't reasonable to expect sites to demand that every mailer support DNS properly. Yes it is. How long has DNS been out in the world? It isn't reasonable to have to break a model because system administrators won't upgrade their software, and it is even less reasonable to introduce a new method to support the old broken ones. That is to say, why should we expect sites to support the % hack, when we cannot expect other sites to support MXes? The % hack is far from universal. However, what you do with your local part is your business. -- Eliot Lear [lear@net.bio.net]