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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Domains vs. Routing (was Re: rewriting FROM: lines)
Message-ID: <1779@papaya.bbn.com>
Date: 3 Jun 89 16:45:06 GMT
References: <31051@sri-unix.SRI.COM> <160@zebra.UUCP> <6982@cbnews.ATT.COM> <882@adobe.UUCP> <99688@felix.UUCP>
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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 <99688@felix.UUCP> art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick) writes:
>I agree and why in the h___ did it have to change?  If it isn't
>broken, don't fix it.

If it worked, than all the sites that are moving domainist would be
sticking with bang paths.  There's no conspiracy, no organization
that can force UUCP sites to do anything.  It's just that individual
sites, in large numbers, are finding the domain scheme a better way
to do things than an explicit-route scheme.

I'm explaining this poorly, but if you think about the lack of
formal structure in UUCP-land and the changing world, than it seems
obvious that we're seeing Darwinism in action.
	/r$
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