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From: ckd@CS.BU.EDU (Christopher Davis)
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Subject: The Religious Schism of Domain Orderings (Part XVIII)
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Date: 31 Jul 90 22:34:42 GMT
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Dan> Dan@dna.lth.se (Dan Oscarsson) said:
Sven> sow@cad.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg) writes:

Sven> Hmm... Backwards or not why did you write your own address,
Sven> "Computer Science, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden" ????

Dan> Because thats the standard for writing an adress on paper mail, not
Dan> because it looks best that way.

Seems to me that the reason that became the standard is because it's nice,
straightforward, least-to-most-significant order.  For example, my name,
then my department, then my organization, then my city (and for those of us
in the USA, state), then country...

Dan> I feel it is right to use sow@cad.luth.se if you see the domain adress as
Dan> an adress seen from the local domain, then you could write
Dan> a mail to user@xxx.luth.se by only using user@xxx. On the other hand,
Dan> it you see an adress from the global view which means that you always
Dan> must use full domain adress, sow@se.luth.cad is more right as this is the
Dan> way (from left to right) from the global view to the local place cad.

Then shouldn't it be se.luth.cad@sow?  After all, a user is merely a "very
local" entity...

--Chris
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