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From: hmm@laura.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Handling paths to ambiguous hosts
Message-ID: <14@laura.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: Sat, 21-Mar-87 10:16:04 EST
Article-I.D.: laura.14
Posted: Sat Mar 21 10:16:04 1987
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Reply-To: hmm@laura.UUCP (Hans-Martin Mosner)
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The most reasonable thing to do is to assume uucp for bang addresses.
xyz!user is ONLY a valid addres in the uucp domain.  If someone wants
to address a host in another domain, he should use user@xyz or user@xyz.domain.
Adding a database which maps every simple name into a fully qualified address
makes things unnecessarily complicated both for the administrator and the
poor users.

	Hans-Martin Mosner
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