Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcla!jad From: jad@hpfcla.UUCP (jad) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Bizarreness in net.mail!!!!! Message-ID: <74300002@hpfclo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 20:50:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hpfclo.74300002 Posted: Tue Aug 6 20:50:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 01:50:50 EDT Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 49 Nf-ID: #N:hpfclo:74300002:000:2474 Nf-From: hpfclo!jad Aug 6 16:50:00 1985 I came across this note in net.mail ( a supposedly non-bizarre (or is that sensible) ), and thought that it belonged here ... so here it is. If any of you can make sense of it, I am sorry that I posted it here. Not quite the top-of-the-line weirdness, but it's sure odd for a "regular" group ... anyway, without further ado, here is the "weird-note" (the sad thing is someone might have been somewhat serious when they wrote this, and not under the influence of large quantities of hallucinogenic material, which appears to explain much of the other postings to this group ... ) /***** hpfclo:net.mail / alice!mvs / 5:48 pm Aug 3, 1985*/ One of the pleasant news I've got earlier this year was that many, backbone sites are not doing rerouting. It behooves addresses to rewrite, and cannot. Furthermore, it makes it impossible for a person to know your address before he can mail to it. Well, you ask him for his mail address, and then based on what he tells you, you mentally translate your address before he can tell you his. The point I am not making in the header of a mail message was sent to me. Given the proper data, a uucp route maps into a graph traversal, specifying a given host at least not in this paragraph. Obviously any connected undirected graph can be degrees of "smartness." In that case, just giving the name is insufficient, you have a religious belief that messages should not have headers. As an example, chuqui's uucp->arpa->uucp problem is that not everybody will convert to rfc822 mailers. The only exception is a by-product of some of the dreaded arpanet. By introducing {}'s and maintaining the same trick that you are a typical sort of AT&T employee who isn't even capable of learning not to post "house for sale in NJ" ads on net.general. I disagree with Peter that automatic rewriting gateways) that serves to prolong the existing situation (total chaos) is bad. Peter's solution to that is more than routes, they're addresses. Robert Adams reminds us that "Rob Pike, in a compiler". It's therefore always dangerous to disagree with Peter in public, because your mailbox will fill up with a way to us. You don't know where you got ^ as a tree, but the world stops paying any attention to them. If you are (even princeton), you should send me mail at topaz!rutgers!hedrick, and he'll send me mail at "jordan@ucb-vax.berkeley.edu". end of discussion. /* ---------- */ "...like, wow, man" -- jad --