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From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch)
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Subject: Re: Registered sitenames
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Date: 5 Apr 88 05:25:48 GMT
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wcs@ho95e.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.<ho95c>,2G218,x0705,) wrote: 
->	That helps a lot, but it doesn't do the whole job.  For
->instance, what if you have local machine named "b.ucar.edu", which you
->address locally as "b", and I register a machine named "b".
->If you get a mail message for "joe@b" or "b!joe", who do you send it to?
->Domains help, but they only solve the problem if everyone has one, and
->if all transactions always use them.

I thought this was pretty easy; the message gets delivered to
joe@b.ucar.edu.  Can't hold everyone else  responsible if you don't do
the right things and get a true domain name ...

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