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In article <1992Sep8.123136.18398@visionware.co.uk> chris@visionware.co.uk (Chris Davies) writes:
>friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:
>:    It occurs to me that, regrettably, a rewrite of the appropriate mail
>: headers is also necessary when transferring mail between the UK and the
>: rest of the world, since they have their domains backwards. 
>No, No, No!!!!!  Some of the academic network (Janet) uses domains
>which happen to be the other way round to the Internet way of doing
>things.  The rest of us use Internet domains (or perhaps bang paths if
>absolutely necessary).  Life's too short to attempt to do anything with
>uk.ac.* addresses except pass them on to our smart host (uknet.ac.uk).
>However, we can handle some *.ac.uk addresses (which is the way we see
>things).  Likewise for most UK commercial sites.

The backwards domain is dying and faster then I had guessed it would...
A significant number of *.ac.uk sites now use SMTP directly to the rest
of the Internet, avoiding any non-local rewriting.  Certainly, here at
Warwick, delivery of local mail is in 822 order, not backwards...
Grey Book mail is being ousted by a combination of SMTP and X.400(88).
I bet you can't guess which is the official political line, and which
one will survive for longer than *THEY* would like :-)

Cheers,
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