Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!karl_kleinpaste From: karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Question about From: lines Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 90 18:10:05 GMT References: <267E8726.3444@tct.uucp> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 27 chip@tct.uucp writes: If we're not going to use RFC976, then why bother publishing it? (*chuckle*) Sometime, strictly for the humor value, write to hostmaster@nic.ddn.mil, or perhaps postmaster@ddn1.dca.mil, or something of that ilk, and ask why RFC1031 ("MILNET Name Domain Transition") hasn't been adhered to[*]. 1031 specifies the conversion schedule of the MILNET from HOSTS.TXT usage to nameserver usage. The MILNET purportedly completed this conversion at the end of Oct 1989 (see 1031 p.3, Table 1, "Migration Timetable"). It's just a fantasy RFC, though; strictly vaporware. Not all RFCs are either useful or correct. --karl [*] Don't actually bother asking. I did so last December for personal reasons having to do with excessive interaction with MILNET people over nameserver issues. The answer I got back from the NIC was, shall we say, unsatisfying. -- Depression \di-'presh-un\ n. A condition observed on return from 3 weeks' vacation to find ~2000 mail messages waiting for oneself. (And people marvel that I employ GNUS as a mail-reading interface.)