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From: iiitsh@cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: When to reverse domain addresses?
Summary: Junk the stupid idea
Message-ID: <2153@cybaswan.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 90 16:40:19 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.155757@ap.co.umist.ac.uk>
Reply-To: iiitsh@cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood)
Organization: Institute for Industrial Information Technology
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>so we just assume anything in "cs." is to be relayed. Has anyone got a better
>algorithm that the above - really to detect whether the name is valid. The only
>things I can think of are:
>
>	1) Hardwire all the problem cases in one of the databases.
>	2) Let's give up sending reversed addresses around the UK. (please?)
>

As my old computer science tutor used to say: Option 1 (above) is rather
like walking along the road and finding that because you've got one foot
in the gutter and the other on the walkway, that you're going up and down
with every step. You examine the situation and decide to strap a block of
wood under the foot that's in the gutter so that you can walk level again.

This stinks! Why don't we just scrub the stupid system? The amount of
time I spend hot-wiring addresses to get them through, and explaining
the system to others. 

Support option 2 (above) now! Surely no-one would object if we (JANET)
did this?

 
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