Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!yetti!geac!daveb From: daveb@geac.UUCP Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: The Canadian Domain: Introduction to CA Message-ID: <1903@geac.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 07:54:19 EST Article-I.D.: geac.1903 Posted: Mon Nov 30 07:54:19 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 01:08:03 EST References: <1987Nov23.095020.13055@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1152@looking.UUCP> <1165@looking.UUCP> <11863@orchid.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) Distribution: can Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star. Lines: 25 >In article <1165@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: >> The point of a domain scheme is that mile long headers go away. Having your >> offical name be Mark_Brader@Toronto.Ontario.Ca isn't very long, but it's >> descriptive to anybody, anywhere. In article <11863@orchid.waterloo.edu> egisin@orchid.UUCP writes: >Put the full name in the From: comments (see article header), where it belongs. The "From" comment indicates a substantial misunderstanding of the RFCs on mail: that comment fiedl was to put the real pre-domain form of your name into if you had a brain-damaged mailer that wouldn't take "David R. Brown of TSDC" @ Hi-Multics, but demanded the arpanaut version of the minimalist address: DRBROWN.TSDC@HI-MULTICS. [Fer gunnis sake, if you're going to make snarky comments, get your facts straight: even pre-domain mail was aimed at being able to say the equivalent of Mark_Brader@Toronto.Ontario.Ca] --dave (see below) c-b -- David Collier-Brown. {mnetor|yetti|utgpu}!geac!daveb Geac Computers International Inc., | Computer Science loses its 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | memory (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months.