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jc@cdx39.UUCP (John Chambers) says:
>> ... 
>> I realize having non-unique uucp node names is a problem and
>> everything should be domainized ...
> ...
> ...
>Uucp is, after all, used for a lot more than email.  Even with
>intelligent mail routers installed everywhere (which is still
>not too close to realization), people would still be making
>little, temporary links and running uucp across it for purposes
>like downloading binaries and uuxing them.  Requiring that users
>first spend several orders of magnitude more time consulting a
>name authority is not realistic.
>

Of course it is used for more than email.  You are making a useless point
since the issue of the actual workings of UUCP is not germane to this dis-
cussion.  UUCP knows nothing about domains and addresses and probably never
will.  All it knows about is paths.  As far as mail is concerned, UUCP is just
a transport protocol, ignorant of the application layer's needs and intentions.
Mail is the entity that needs to know about domains and addresses (if you are
a domainist and if you aren't then this entire discussion is of no interest).

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