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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: AT&T map entry
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Date: 5 Aug 88 21:37:09 GMT
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In article <313@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) writes:
>Now, can't you just say
>att	.att.com
>and then let internal sites be addressed as xxx.att.com?  

Since we've got a DIRECT connection across town to an att, osu-cis's
`paths' file already says
	.att.com	att!%s
They handle everything internal to ATT for us.

In article <10368@ncc.Nexus.CA> lyndon@ncc.nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
>The trouble is the System V mailers don't grok domain addresses. If AT&T
>was to do this, they would have to run software from the GNU project :-)

Not hardly.  Not that your suggestion would be all bad, but at least
some ATT sites already do domains correctly:
	Received: by att.ATT.COM (smail2.5 - att-cb)
Others, though, require users to do something like
	arpa!host.dom.ain!user
to get out into the internetworking world.  It's a big organization -
please don't consider it monolithic.
-=-
 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
 bob@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!{att,pyramid,killer}!cis.ohio-state.edu!bob