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- From: emcoop@bnr.ca (hume smith)
- Subject: Re: Matthew Dillon's email address
- In-Reply-To: cmh@lysator.liu.se's message of 28 Jan 93 14:13:49 GMT
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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- <EMCOOP.93Jan26105709@bcars148.bnr.ca> <C1KI73.348@lysator.liu.se>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:30:45 GMT
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- In article <C1KI73.348@lysator.liu.se> cmh@lysator.liu.se (Magnus Holmgren) writes:
-
- emcoop@bnr.ca (hume smith) writes:
-
- > >Does anyone know what it is? There is no such host as:
-
- > > dillon@overload.berkeley.ca.us
-
- > Try using dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US instead... :)
- > Works for me at least....
-
- >the capitalisation shouldn't matter, i think the problem is the domain part
- >of the address. i can't ping overload.berkeley.ca.us, but overload.berkeley.edu
- >is fine. IP address 128.32.184.58. i can't finger it for some reason...
-
- Well, I can only say that it did for me! One time I used
- dillon@overload.berkeley.ca.us, and that one bounced, while
- dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US did not.
-
- yes, somebody reminded me that mail routing is not done the same way as
- hostname->IP translation, which just throws a wonderful wrench into
- trying to figure out what the hell one is doing.
-
- if i remember the RFC right, the case isn't supposed to matter. but then
- again the RFCs are only suggestions, and even if they were enforced there
- could still be buggy implementations.
-
- it goes to confirm my suspicion that all this new technology is just
- making our lives more difficult. 1/4 :-) it's time the whole infernal
- email system was scrapped and rebuilt.
-
- now back to amiga issues...
- --
- Hume Smith Honour sick and davey cris-cross
- hume.smith@acadiau.ca McTruloff sentimie
- emcoop@bnr.ca A parsnip inner pair threes.
-