Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: <26BCD60E.1D9@intercon.com> Date: 6 Aug 90 02:29:33 GMT References: <26A738A8.725B@tct.uucp> <26B70994.578B@intercon.com> <66101@sgi.sgi.com> Sender: usenet@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Herndon, VA Lines: 19 In article <66101@sgi.sgi.com>, vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes: > Again, please refrain from even thinking of suggesting that people > using machines within the sgi.com domain be forced to type FQDN's on > internal mail. I agree that they shouldn't have to, but I don't think it unreasonable if their machines append their domain to any unqualified hostnames before the messages leave their machine... Karl's machines (well, OSU CIS's machines :-)) do this, and it works quite well unless someone gives their *unqualified* address to a colleague across the country and their mail ends up in Finland... This, however, is pilot error. "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you generate." -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation