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From: per@erix.UUCP (Per Hedeland)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Area-code as uucp domains
Message-ID: <277@erix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 07:15:36 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 22 07:15:36 1984
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With respect, area codes are not for people, they are for telephones, which
lack a character-set keyboard...

Seriously, there is currently a problem with the "mixed" address you mention:
Things like 'erix!enea!mcvax!mark@cbosgd.UUCP' (removing a few "domains") are
ambiguos. In the old days (pre 4.2 sendmail), this would have been interpreted
as "erix!enea!mcvax!" "mark@cbosgd.UUCP", while now, at least most 4.2 sites
interpret it as "erix!enea!mcvax!mark" "@cbosgd.UUCP", which clearly won't
do the trick.

I won't say that 4.2 sendmail is in error for doing this (rather to the
contrary), it just goes to show the problems we'll be facing if "domain" and
"path" syntaxes are to coexist.

As far as I can understand, the only way to handle such a situation is total
separation of the two syntaxes (allowing conversion between them, of course,
but not mixing). In this respect, I think that sendmail (or rather, the
"standard" .cf files supplied, but that amounts to much the same thing) *is*
in error.

Per Hedeland
..{decvax, philabs}!mcvax!enea!erix!per  or  per@erix.UUCP