Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: What irks me about Unix mail Message-ID: <6339@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 23:56:06 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6339 Posted: Tue Dec 4 23:56:06 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 06:33:27 EST References: <198@ucsbcsl.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 16 The only standard mail facility on UNIX supports mail to the local users and via UUCP (onehost!another!whoever) but that is all. The USENET is UUCP-based and has several independent, not fully correct, message handling programs. Many of the people contributing to the newsgroups are on a non-UUCP network such as BITNET, CSNET, or MILNET/ ARPANET. Net addresses for such folks are totally foreign to standard UNIX mail facilities, and even the extended message/news handlers have trouble at times sending mail across different networks. The Internet concept is supposed to provide a "global" network addressing scheme, but until there is a UUCP domain name server USENET will not conform to the Internet protocols. The situation is not much different from VMS (which can speak DECNET and some Internet); the problem shows up more strongly in the UNIX world since the UNIX system is running in so many different networking environments.