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- From: Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <BzxvDC.CoK.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 22:19:56 GMT
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- sl@wimsey.bc.ca writes:
- >but some sites cannot, and this is A Good Thing. Because that way
- >there is an incentive for people to get out of the .UUCP domain so we
- >may not need to support it (for global routing) in five years time.
-
- But we said that five years ago! (No smiley either.)
- This strategy doesn't seem to be working.
-
- The strategy in question has in fact not been implemented in the first
- place. There is far too much ad hoc support for .uucp out there, with
- the result that there has been no real incentive offered. One cannot
- complain of the failure of a strategy which has not been truly tried.
-
- To provide such an incentive, the ad hoc support would have to
- disappear completely, in a hurry, and without backward compatibility.
- Then we would see whether such an incentive works.
-