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From: dave@uwvax.UUCP (Dave Cohrs)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: The truth about .UUCP
Message-ID: <310@uwvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 16:26:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: uwvax.310
Posted: Sun Sep 15 16:26:33 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 05:44:13 EDT
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Speaking of unofficial domain names, what about all of those pseudo-internet
addresses I see in news?  It's really hard to reply to honey@down.FUN.

However, your points are valid.  We run an internet mailer here, and
unofficial domain names are a real pain (read, manual interpretation).
Also, with no administration, we will end up with different people
with the same domain name, just like hosts with the name uw* can
mean U of Wisc. or U of Wash.

Our only recourse is the uucp map.  Mel is doing a great job, I think,
keeping things straightened out (like getting rid of duplicate hostnames,
etc).  If we go to domain-based addressing, this will be even more important.
We can't forget this.
-- 
Dave Cohrs
(608) 262-1204
...!{harvard,ihnp4,seismo,topaz}!uwvax!dave
dave@wisc-romano.arpa


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