Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!minya!jc
From: jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Duplicate site names
Keywords: pathalias maps duplicates
Message-ID: <447@minya.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 03:55:59 GMT
References: <271@ontenv.UUCP> <7905@g.ms.uky.edu> <44208@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> <22488@hi.unm.edu>
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> The real problem is that sites do not, 1) register themselfs, and 2)
> do not use the domain system properly.

Nah, the real problem is that, for every machine in the hands of a properly
qualified guru, there are about 10000 in the hands of uneducated dummies
(like me :-) that don't comprehend the great genius behind domainization
and are trying to get their computers to exchange mail with others and
are stumbling around just trying to make it work somehow and get little
other than arrogance and insults from the experts....

> >we had only a few thousand nodes to worry about.  It is doesn't work
> >so well as the number of nodes approaches 6 digits.
> 
> And that is why everyone should be going to a tree structure for naming
> hosts.

Well, actually, we had that a couple of years ago, and we threw it away.
You know, you send mail up to a!b!...!seismo, which is the root of the 
tree, and from there down to ...!y!z!joe, and it got there.  (:-)

Seriously, if you treat the major clearing houses as roots, their neighbors
as "domains", and so on, the uucp system (?) is easily viewed (and is often
implemented as) trees with cross-links.  It's a lot easier to explain to a 
novice email user than all those '@' and '%' and '.' and '<..>' messes.  And
now that the newer releases understand LANs, it works a whole lot better than
sendmail ever did.
> 
> >John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard,mit-eddie}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)
>
[Oh, no, it's him again! :-] 

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John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard,mit-eddie}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)