Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site down.FUN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!down!honey From: honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: Will it ever work? Message-ID: <576@down.FUN> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 22:22:24 EDT Article-I.D.: down.576 Posted: Sun Aug 18 22:22:24 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 21:11:19 EDT References: <47300003@hpfclo.UUCP> <49800002@hpcnof.UUCP> Organization: CS Dept., Princeton University Lines: 22 dave's description of sendmail's prominence misses the mark. sendmail sucks. just ask anyone. but there it is on the 4.2 distribution tape, so that's what people run. i won't comment on his proposal for geographical domains except to reiterate that communication links don't respect borders. peter the australian gets right to the point: don't talk about it, hack on it. the world will beat a path to your door, even if you trap the trapper with the mouse. also, i remind dave that domains address the host name uniqueness problem; given uucp's weltanschauung, explicit routing is still de jure. so mod.map.uucp data remains a great help, even a necessity, for a large number of hosts. by slighting uucp, john is well intentioned if misguided. the "7 letter limit" is not a limit, it's a uniqueness requirement imposed on a given host's neighbors. honey danber uucp ups this to 14 characters, but the theme is the same: in unix, the file system defines the name space. peter