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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!crynwr!nelson
- From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Mixed format addresses
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <725767101snx@crynwr.com>
- References: <BzzGKp.4L5@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 01:58:21 GMT
- Organization: Crynwr Software
- Lines: 18
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- In article <BzzGKp.4L5@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us writes:
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- In article <BzxvDC.CoK.2@cs.cmu.edu> Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu writes:
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- >There is far too much ad hoc support for .uucp out there, with
- >the result that there has been no real incentive offered.
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- Perhaps not everyone shares the opinion that there is only one email system
- and that users within it have no reason to want to connect to anyone
- outside of it.
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- There *is* only one email system. Check out advertisements in
- computer journals. IF they list an email address, it is their FQDN.
-
- .UUCP sucks because implies that a particular transport is being
- used. Names, addresses, routes, and transports are all distinct
- characteristics.
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- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
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