Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!urlichs From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Paths and Precedence (Re: Question about From: lines) Message-ID: Date: 10 Jul 90 16:59:58 GMT References: <11034@alice.UUCP> <++J4QGC@xds13.ferranti.com> Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG Lines: 37 In comp.mail.uucp, article <++J4QGC@xds13.ferranti.com>, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: < In article < karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu reposts his original review of < That Hideous Name. < I wonder what these people would say about the longish X.400 "tree names" (yes, X.500 talks about a Global Naming Tree ;-) -- BTW, they're not domain names because the appropriate documents use that word for something almost, but not quite, different) which start appearing in people's signatures..? < 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. < That "RSN" might be a tad too optimistic. :-( But gentle force may be useful when convincing people to register... On the German hobbyist's UUCP-style network (more or less a superset of .sub.org), for instance, either you get registered in our domain (or in any other domain, for that matter) or you won't get any mail back to you except when (a) the sender actively source routes and (b) you get lucky. (As of now, political problems still prevent the reverse from being true also... Oh well.) < [ Prefix vs. postfix considered harmful ] Why not user@site@site@site? user%site%site@site gives you that one... more or less. < < (and then there's what the British did to the DNS...) Well, if they _want_ the hassles they're presumably getting (I freely admit almost-total ignorance here) with having to parse their domain names from both directions, they're welcome to it. ;-) -- Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de Humboldtstrasse 7 - 7500 Karlsruhe 1 - FRG -- +49+721+621127(Voice)/621227(PEP)