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From: scw@ollie.SEAS.UCLA.EDU
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Subject: Re:      re: e-mail and System/370 Systems Person
Keywords: MX DNS RC11
Message-ID: <542@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
Date: 12 Apr 90 18:46:41 GMT
References: <9004111551.AA15231@lilac.berkeley.edu>
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Reply-To: scw@ollie.SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Stephen C. Woods)
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In article <9004111551.AA15231@lilac.berkeley.edu> John C Klensin <KLENSIN@INFOODS.MIT.EDU> writes:
>Jeff,
>  I'm going to post this to the list on the theory that the principle, if
>not the specific details, may be of general interest (again).
>
>> [A reference to a source routed mail address]
>>    jbeard%quintus.com@sun.com
>
>"quintus.com" is a registered Domain Name System name on the Internet.
>This makes the "better" form of your e-mail address (as well as the simple
>and obvious one)
>    jbeard@quintus.com
>
> [ A rather long comment that source routing is NOT-A-GOOD-THING-TO-DO ]

John,
    The problem is that the people who are most likley to have the skills
wanted here (System/370) are the most likley to be running mailers that
wouldn't know an MX record from a RC11 (a 256K word (16 bit) disk drive).

Please remember that not everyone in the world runs up to date software.
(mumble cusss...) Even if they'd like to budget constraints may prohibit, and
manpower constraints (or lack of source) may make rewriting unfeasable.

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