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From: stuart@BMS-AT.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Domains
Message-ID: <201@BMS-AT.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Sep-86 00:56:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: BMS-AT.201
Posted: Wed Sep 10 00:56:11 1986
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Organization: Business Management Systems, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Summary: Sounds wonderful

The names used on the network should be the most efficient for the
network.  Making things easier for the user is the job of the software
on the local machine.  Although I am not sure I understand domains,
I am very much in favor if they simplify routing.  Aliases work fine
for frequent correspondence.  The only thing I ask is that my mailer
be able to reply to a message using the information in the header.

Having said that: what do we need to stay compatible with the network?
We currently have SysV mail and uucp with the news software.
I mailed a request for 'pathalias' source, but it didn't make it
because a machine en route did not allow files over 50K.  I have
sent another request, but nothing has come in yet.  Evidently,
pathalias supports the old system, we now need 'smail'.  Is there
a document which describes the new design and what software 
modules are required?  Given some specs, I could even write 
some of the modules myself if they are not available.

Perhaps the things I ask are on the net somewhere.  Please be 
patient and just E-mail a response.

P.S.  Our SysV mailer just copies the domains verbatim from
path lines for responses.  Sometimes this works; sometimes I have to strip
the domain addressing for the mail to go through.  Is this
because some machine en route is fuddy duddy?
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Stuart D. Gathman	<..!seismo!{vrdxhq|dgis}!BMS-AT!stuart>