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From: khera@juliet.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: pattern matching
Message-ID: <14552@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 20 May 89 15:32:45 GMT
References: <2414@cveg.uucp> <11733@well.UUCP> <2428@cveg.uucp>
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In article <2428@cveg.uucp> dws@cseg.uucp (David W. Summers) writes:
>
>In article <11733@well.UUCP>, pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
>> In the referenced message, mhb@hcx.uucp (MARK H BOTNER) wrote:
>> }My address is:
>> }     mhb@cseg.uucp
>> 
>> That address is useless, so I'm posting this.  This is free software, no
>> ...
>> Jef
> ...
>My question is:  Why is this addresses useless?  I noticed that you had the
>...  I don't think
>our address is really useless as I can mail to ANYONE with that type of 
>address (as long as the routing maps are correct).
>
>- David Summers

well, if you try sending a reply to somebody with mail address of
linus!user, then where will it go? will it go to some machine in princeton
or at the university of maryland?  with a uucp address of just the machine
name, there will likely be duplicates of names such as linus, juliet, and
other literary names. for instance, i am on juliet.cs.duke.edu, and to get
uucp traffic here, it needs to be qualified with something like
mcnc!duke!juliet!khera since mcnc is a well known system.  mail to just
juliet!khera could end up on a different machine depending on where it is
mailed from. 

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