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From: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Domains: Multiple names OK? (really, decommissioning of nicknames)
Message-ID: <2303@utai.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Sep-86 21:31:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  9 21:31:57 1986
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References: <566@mecc.UUCP> <2502@cbosgd.UUCP> <3920@ut-ngp.UUCP> <41448@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> <3936@ut-ngp.UUCP> <1237@umd5>
Reply-To: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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In article <2528@cbosgd.UUCP> mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) writes:
>Those of you (both of you?) complaining about seismo.css.gov should
>be grateful you aren't using an X.400 system.  
> [...]
>nonstandard user interface and fill out a form, like this:

Just what are you complaining about?  Such information would be useful
only for querying a registry, and I've never had to use anything
like this in the system I've been using for 2 years (EAN).  

In fact, the X.400 networks in Canada, Norway, Sweden, Italy and
Switzerland all use domain-based addressing exclusively, and
gatewaying is absolutely transparent (even to .uucp, .edu, .com,
.bitnet and some of .uk).

What's more, I've even checked if there were 'lamy's registered in
Switzerland and Canada and got the answer in 20 minutes (with both
registries 3500miles away from me).  I'm all for standards.
-- 

Jean-Francois Lamy
AI Group, Dept of Computer Science     CSNet: lamy@ai.toronto.edu
University of Toronto		       EAN:   lamy@ai.toronto.cdn
Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 1A4	       UUCP:  lamy@utai.uucp