Re: Another reason to hate smail

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From: Phil Ngai
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1987 07:34

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In article <467@unicus.UUCP> emc@unicus.UUCP (Eric M. Carroll) writes:
>Really
>what I need is a table that associates a domain to my prefered transport
>mechanism (ie resolve the physical network to be used), then does the routing 
>lookup inside the associated connection graph for that physical network.

No, you're making the same mistake that I complained about originally.
You need to associate a transport mechanism with an *address*, not a
domain. My site (amdcad) is in the .COM domain but that does not mean
we are on the ARPA Internet, much to the surprise of many people's
mailers.

-- 
 Warning: the California AAA is pursuing a policy which would spend 
 gasoline taxes on mass transit instead of roads.

 Phil Ngai +1 408 749 5720
 UUCP: {ucbvax,decwrl,hplabs,allegra}!amdcad!phil
 ARPA: amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com

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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Another reason to hate smail
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Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 02:34:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 16 02:34:46 1987
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