Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site erix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!mcvax!enea!erix!per 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 Article-I.D.: erix.277 Posted: Wed Feb 22 07:15:36 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Feb-84 05:00:14 EST References: <426@psuvax.UUCP>, <758@ulysses.UUCP>, <3508@utzoo.UUCP> <3513@utzoo.UUCP> <203@haring.UUCP> Organization: L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 25 <> 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