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From: PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Philip A. Prindeville")
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Subject: Re: easy relay name service
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Date: 31 Dec 87 04:35:39 GMT
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That's fine, but a major transition like this will be slow and painful.

If everyone cut over at the same time, then the effort of erecting
firewalls her-and-there could be saved, but this is probably unrealistic...

(I've noticed that the VM TCP/IP product from IBM has an SMTP mailer that
 doesn't like hostnames longer than 20 characters.  This will have to be
 fixed before the transition...  If it hasn't been done already.)

Still, I guess it's the best course of action.

-Philip