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From: kurt@hi.unm.edu (Kurt Zeilenga)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Duplicate site names
Keywords: pathalias maps duplicates
Message-ID: <22595@hi.unm.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 88 18:35:41 GMT
References: <271@ontenv.UUCP> <7905@g.ms.uky.edu> <44208@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> <22488@hi.unm.edu> <447@minya.UUCP>
Reply-To: kurt@hi.unm.edu (Kurt Zeilenga)
Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <447@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>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....

Well, I can agree with that...  I was just trying not to be arrogant or
insulting.

>> And that is why everyone should be going to a tree structure for naming
>> hosts.
>
>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.

I always that it was pretty easy to tell uses that I am at kurt@hi.unm.edu
It makes sense, hi is a SUN at UNM, UNM are a educational institute :-),
etc.  They don't have to remember that siesmo is a root, but then have to
be told that, no, siesmo is not the root anymore and uunet is, or is it?

-- 
	Kurt (zeilenga@hc.dspo.gov)