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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write?
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.124545.26165@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 90 12:45:45 GMT
References: <1990Dec18.071226.20809@chinet.chi.il.us> <1990Dec18.155353.5024@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1990Dec19.061836.8692@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1990Dec19.061836.8692@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>In article <1990Dec18.155353.5024@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>> As pointed out by others, the name space for which I have authority to
>>create names may not be an appropriate name space for my UUCP neighbors.
>>This is a side effect of the organizational orientation of the Internet
>>names. 
>
>What I am suggesting is that you create a new domain solely for the
>purpose of establishing an organization where none currently exits.
>The intent of the organization would be to maintain sanity in the
>mail system.   
>
 As long as you can plug your pocket calculator into a modem and instantly
become part of the UUCP pseudo-network, no organization can possibly exist.
If you want organization you need an enforced central registry, enforced
standards, etc.

 But the current chaos has proved very productive - lets not break it just yet.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940