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From: Crispin@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA (Mark Crispin)
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Subject: Re: Implementing Mail Domain Addresses and Nameservers
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 02:32:40 EDT
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Two suggestions:

     1) avoid provoking the issue during a transition period; retain
some set of names that are major mail agents and use those names.
Address other problems as they come up, and otherwise make the software
reliable enough that widespread adoption of domains can be done with
confidence.  Attempting to "force" production networks into using
unproven software is a waste.

     2) flush mailboxes such as netinfo@ucbjade.Berkeley.EDU which are
completely ridiculous to mail to.  A more reasonable address would be
"Bill Wells"@Berkeley.EDU, which hopefully some reasonable mail user
interface can arrive at by sending mail to "Bill Wells"@Berkeley.  Of
course, this means thinking about the semantics of mailboxes as
something other than login user names.  It also means fixing Unix to
comprehend spaces in mailbox names, something that appears impossible
to do (even though every other operating system has).
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