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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Why "From cbosgd!cbosgd.ATT.UUCP!chris" isn't stupid
Message-ID: <1055@peora.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 08:12:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: peora.1055
Posted: Wed Jun 12 08:12:40 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Jun-85 01:49:04 EDT
References: <1214@cbosgd.UUCP> <515@down.FUN> <766@plus5.UUCP> <1269@houxm.UUCP> <1862@ukma.UUCP>
Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl.
Lines: 17
Keywords: mailers, domains, archaic software, ambiguous explanations

> We need to have mailers which will route mail around without people
> having to know complete paths.  Paths change.  Are hard to discover.
> Sometimes are hidden.  Might be broken due to hardware failures.
> A lot of things.  But if you do something like the domain style addressing
> then there's a whole host of improvements that can be made.

I keep seeing statements like this.  Are we saying that using domains to
qualify site names is going to help this problem, or just that automatically
generating the routing without the user having to specify it is going to
do this?
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