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From: rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Stuck with .UUCP forever?
Summary: economic, not technical problem
Message-ID: <56966@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 5 Jun 89 18:21:48 GMT
References: <May.22.01.46.36.1989.17215@porthos.rutgers.edu> <444@logicon.arpa> <1780@fig.bbn.com>
Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA
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> No five sites are going to maintain 3000 lines of data -- but it would be
> interesting to see if the current system could handle 15,000
> flat-namespace records. :-)

It's called pathalias and it works fine now.

UUNET (and lots of others) effectively do the hardpart already
(e.g. the routing to foo.uucp to the final destination).

The hard part is paying for the computer upgrades necessary to
handle a huge increase in the mail volume once the entire 60,000 machine
internet decides to route the mail through one site.

--rick