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From: jad@hpfcla.UUCP (jad)
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Subject: Will it ever work?
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 19:53:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 19:53:00 1985
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Nf-From: hpfclo!jad    Aug  2 15:53:00 1985


	I am confident that there are sensible solutions to the problems
	we have been discussing here for the past few weeks.  Domains do
	seem like a good idea (which we can't live without) and absolute
	chaos (like absolute path specification in all outgoing mail) is
	has been called wave of the past and should be disposed of soon.

	But there's another problem here -- even if someone does come up
	with some great wonderful way to solve all the world's problems,
	or at least those concerned with mail routing, how do we get the
	world to move to it?  Is there a way to update everyone's mailer
	code?  Of course not... that would be too easy.  Does anyone out
	there have a solution to this monster?  Do we even want everyone
	(at least everyone on the same network?) running the same code??

	Perhaps the UUCP domain [may I say domain here?] needs some kind
	of central authority.  First, is this at all feasable?  We won't
	ever see all the machines owned and operated by the same entity,
	so there has to be some kind of coordination!!  Domains do offer
	this coordination, if done properly... the question is how do we
	get everyone to agree to move?  Or better yet, CAN IT BE DONE???

				--	jad	 --