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From: honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Mail routing -- problems showing up
Message-ID: <536@down.FUN>
Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 21:34:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 24 21:34:24 1985
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Organization: Princeton University, EECS
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i am delighted to hear a traditional arpanaut (hedrick@rutgers)
espousing the wonders of source routing in general and uucp syntax in
particular.  welcome to the club.

let me join in hedrick's request that gateways between dissimilar
networks do the dirty work of translating between addressing styles.
then i'll send him mail at topaz!rutgers!hedrick, and he'll send me
mail at honey%princeton@topaz; naturally, the gateway at topaz will
translate the addresses as they pass through.

i must disagree with his suggestion that we tie transport to syntax:
graph traversals are everything.  give me a sequence of hosts, in any
damn syntax you please, and i'll betcha i can get the mail through.
but on the whole, hedrick is right on the mark.

	peter

ps: please please please keep those nasty cbogsd!cbosgd.att.uucp's from
my door.