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From: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home)
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Subject: Re: rewriting FROM: lines
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Date: 25 May 89 05:26:00 GMT
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In article <160@zebra.UUCP> vern@zebra.UUCP (Vernon C. Hoxie) writes:
>In article <31051@sri-unix.SRI.COM>, jthomp@hemaneh.Central.Sun.COM (Jim Thompson  Sun Dallas IR) writes:
->>
->> UUCP (and 'bang addressing') are a really stupid way of doing things.
->> Hence, foo@bar.UUCP is (almost) as bad as bar!foo.  I have no idea
->> which 'bar' you mean.  foo@bar.baz.{com,edu,org,net,...} Does tell me
->> which 'bar' you mean, and I have some hope of delivering it.
->>
>	I have been confused for a long time about how to interpret
>domain names.  
>I can't see how the .COM on your address has any relevance to the delivery
>of a message when there are so many .COM's scattered all over the country.
> 	In your address, "jthomp@hemaneh.Central.Sun.COM", what are the
>meanings of the encryptions following the "@" sign? ..and of what concern
>are they to me so far from your organization.

	Hear, hear - I'm sure there are many of us who would like a logical 
explanation for Vernon's questions.

	In my address from uunet (fred@cdin-1.uu.net) I wonder whether I'm in
domain uu or net or what?

	And since we have a lot of customers out there, to whom we assigned site 
names but nothing, else should they be in our own little domain even so they 
are all separate entities?

Fred Rump
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