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From: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Mail routing -- problems showing up
Message-ID: <1993@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 22:30:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: ukma.1993
Posted: Sun Jul 28 22:30:15 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 31-Jul-85 01:50:19 EDT
References: <3018@nsc.UUCP> <2875@topaz.ARPA> <166@plx.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
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In article <166@plx.UUCP> adams@plx.UUCP (Robert Adams) writes:
>The different nets are radically different -- some centralized,
>some chaotic, some ... -- so expecting domaining (which is probably
>a good solution for ARPA net) to work on Usenet (which couldn't
>keep routing tables in >1000 sites together) is crazy.  Besides,
>I don't think there exists a parser that could handle all the
>@'s, !'s, %'s, ^'s, and everything else that would work all
>the time.

But ... but ... it doesn't have to keep routing tables for > 1000
sites (If everybody's domained properly).  The point of domaining
is knowing that you have an address druxa.ATT.UUCP.  You don't know
that druxa is in Denver, but you know that this guy in columbus
knows how to get mail to all the ATT sites.  So you send it to him.

Simple.

eerrr....  I don't know where you got ^ as a network character.
-- 
--- David Herron
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