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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)
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>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
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