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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.mail,net.news
Subject: Re: Fantastic Elastic Plastic USENET addresses
Message-ID: <520@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Nov-83 10:03:16 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.520
Posted: Thu Nov  3 10:03:16 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Nov-83 18:05:02 EST
References: <482@cbosgd.UUCP>, <138@dual.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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The point is that netnews is not the proper place to implement Internet
mail addressing.  If it's going to be done, it should go in the mail
system, not the news system.  News need merely pass Internet addressses
through and allow that they be used.

Sendmail as done at Berkeley does not support Internet addressing on UUCP,
unless there is a direct connection.  There does exist code to interface
to sendmail to do UUCP routing, and we run it here on cbosgd.  The problem
is that there is currently no official well-supported UUCP connection
database to run this software from.  There are good reasons to hope that
this situation will be remedied within 6 months or so.

Of course the news paths from dual are ridiculously long!  You go through
ucbvax, which has chosen to be in the far off sticks of Usenet.  The only
way news can escape from dual is to go through the path dual -> ucbvax ->
ucbcad -> tektronix, at which point it might go to uw-beaver, decvax, or
zehntel.