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From: stevea@laidbak.UUCP (Steve Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Domains vs. Routing (was Re: rewriting FROM: lines)
Message-ID: <2373@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 89 01:20:17 GMT
References: <31051@sri-unix.SRI.COM> <160@zebra.UUCP> <6982@cbnews.ATT.COM> <882@adobe.UUCP>
Reply-To: stevea@laidbak.UUCP (Steve Alexander)
Organization: Lachman Associates, Inc. Naperville, IL
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In article <882@adobe.UUCP> greid@adobe.COM (Glenn Reid) writes:
>
>The bangity!bangity!user stuff is pretty crude, but it was very
>reliable in terms of reversing the path and getting mail returned to
>the sender.  That's valuable, in my opinion.  And sorely missed in
>today's world.
>
>Glenn Reid
>Adobe Systems

Well, when I started using this stuff (about 7 years ago), the network
was much smaller, so that may be why it used to seem better.  As others
have pointed out, it's typically only mixing addresses that generate the 
confusion.  The more hosts and networks that get added, the higher the
chance that something won't get where it's going.

But even in ``the good old days,'' there were links that didn't work
consistently, whether they were unidirectional, or news-only.
-- 
Steve Alexander, TCP/IP Development | stevea%laidbak@sun.com
Lachman Associates, Inc.            | ...!sun!laidbak!stevea