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From: gore@nucsrl.UUCP (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: fidonet <-> usenet
Message-ID: <3380002@nucsrl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Apr-87 00:11:33 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 12 00:11:33 1987
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>>	I can imagen the following:
>>
>>			Honzo.Svasek@333.500.FIDO
> [...]
>
>    I see the addressing working like this:
>
>     user_name@NODEn.NETn.ZONEn.FIDO.NET     or 
>     Tim_Pozar@NODE406.NET125.ZONE1.FIDO.NET
>
>    This takes care of two problems.  
>    1]  Smart mailers could route to the nearest Fido Gateway.
>    2]  If additional areas get added (such as POINTs) it can be added
>        with out screwing up the gateway.  

The whole beauty of Internet addresses (as I see it) is that they hide the
networking details.  What network(s) is "prep.AI.MIT.Edu" on?  (That's a
rhetorical question (:-))

"Smart" mailers can figure out how to send to a host without having a network
name inplanted into the address.  It would be nice if Fido hosts could fit
into this scheme.

Jacob Gore
Northwestern University, Computer Science Research Lab
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