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From: honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman)
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Subject: Re: Name space explosion -- more tremors
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 21:56:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 21:56:43 1985
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dave describes a scheme in which user@batman goes to the local batman
while user@batman.domain goes to some faraway batman.  i agree, and
follow precisely this scheme.  as a case in point, we have an ncr tower
here named bilbo (blame some undergraduate, not me).  if i mail to
bilbo!root (or root@bilbo, if you prefer), it goes to said tower.  to
get to the other two bilbo's out there, i have to give a more
complete address.

dave goes on to describe a scheme in which users exploit personal
aliases for frequently needed addresses of faraway places, summarizing
by saying "No need to make a new mechanism when an old one will work
just as well."  does anyone else see a certain irony in this
statement?

he finishes by urging consideration of the postal and
telecommunications networks as solutions for our troubles with naming
and routing.  i suggest we consider the costs while we ponder their
effectiveness.

	peter