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From: treese@crltrx.crl.dec.com (Win Treese)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: %-@ formalization
Message-ID: <183@crltrx.crl.dec.com>
Date: 25 May 89 05:30:31 GMT
References: <1635@ur-cc.UUCP> <53257@uunet.UU.NET> <7196@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1980@edison.GE.COM>
Reply-To: treese@crltrx.crl.dec.com (Win Treese)
Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
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In article <1980@edison.GE.COM> rja@edison.GE.COM (rja) writes:
>Rather than see the kludges like  user%relayhost@domain-name
>formalised,  I'd prefer to see a real push to help sites that
>aren't registered get registered and obtain domain-names 
>(and if they are UUCP-only get pathalias or a smart-host).

I'd like to see this, too.

But there are still many sites that don't use MX records or other
routing techniques when all they have is a domain name.  That would
need to be fixed as well.

Win Treese						Cambridge Research Lab
treese@crl.dec.com					Digital Equipment Corp.