Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Paths and Precedence (Re: Question about From: lines) Message-ID: <++J4QGC@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 9 Jul 90 22:35:11 GMT References: <11034@alice.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 18 In article karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu reposts his original review of That Hideous Name. I think we're all agreed that the DNS is a good thing, and if you want to get to a registered site it's the cat's meow, and finally that RSN all sites will be registered. But, still, DNS source-routing is incredibly ugly. Using both prefix and postfix in the same expression has been proven a horrible idea twice now: first with C declarations (wouldn't it have been wonderful if indirection was a postscript operator, like subscripts and function calls), and second with DNS source routing. Whatever its other faults, a pure bang path is at least self consistent. Why not user@site@site@site? (Forth and Lisp afficianados will recognise this argument) (and then there's what the British did to the DNS...) -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.