Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!draken!perand
From: perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: Questions about X.400
Message-ID: <2340@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 19 Nov 89 20:57:17 GMT
References: <1987@xyzzy.UUCP> <10100002@WL9.Prime.COM> <8061@ditmela.oz> <3215@convex.UUCP>
Reply-To: perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <3215@convex.UUCP> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>
>You mean you know how (on BSD Unix) to set up the /etc/hosts file?
>Which you have to do by hand?  Or am I missing something?  What you

What he probably means is that there is a controlled way to be assigned
a worldwide unique IP-subnet for your needs. Of course you only need this
if you are to be connected to the Internet/Eunet/etc. There seems to be very 
little knowledge about the existing mail facilities available to the members
of the EUUG, the European Unix Users Group. This might be a reason some 
people are in such a hurry to get X.400. I'd rather have my X.400 system
gatewayed to the EUNET as directly as can be managed, because the EUNET at
least has some coordination. In the X.400 world everything seems to depend
on me wanting to pay the local PTT for an X.25 connection, and have them
forwarding my mail.

Per - Speaking for myself of course
-- 
Per Andersson
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
perand@admin.kth.se, @tds.kth.se, @nada.kth.se 
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