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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: I am for splitting up the UUCP domain.
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 13:48:31 EST
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The problem with Greg Skinner's mechanism (which is what I use) is
that it soon becomes: send all mail through ihnp4...(which is a
fairly good approximation of how I send mail to anyone.) As long as
ihnp4 is happy with this arrangement, there appears to be no problem.
However, if Gary Murakami gets run over by a cement truck tomorrow, I
think that we will all be in for a rude surprise. Allegra used to be
the mail capital of Bell Labs, but one day I got a note from
Phil Karn asking me to stop sending so much stuff through allegra --
and to tell my friends to do the same.

Arpa type connectivity is never going to work for Usenet, but I
don't think that we can rely on ihnp4, decvax, decwrl, and ucbvax
to provide free mail for an ever-increasing number of people. The
first step in making their load easier is to move news to stargate,
since there is a *lot* of news. But I fear this only postpones the
inevitable.

Think of this as the golden age of networks....

Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura