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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > >You're lost in the past. Study history and stop repeating it back to us. > Although I agree that email peering is a seriously bad idea, I don't > think that the analogy to uucp is correct. You're right -- I left out the routing table bit, which also existed some time ago. BITNET used the bitnet.links file; here's an old one still accessible for viewing: http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/reference/net-directory/host-tables/bitnet.links Similar concept, same scaling problems; it just hides the explicit routing from the user (as would any modern "peering" system, presumably). -- -- Todd Vierling <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
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