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From: honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman)
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Subject: Re: Will it ever work?
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 22:22:24 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 18 22:22:24 1985
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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