At 05:23 PM 3/31/99 -0800, Greg Skinner wrote:
>"Roeland M.J. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> No, I am saying that the mail system, when confronted by a destination
>> address it doesn't know, should forward the message to a relay that may
>> know better what to do with the message. This algorithm was worked out over
>> 15 years ago, in fidonet systems.
>
>Incidentally, similar algorithms were used by UUCP systems to relay mail
>to the [IP reachable] Internet, BITNET, CSNET, etc, during the same
>time frame.
Considering that two of the major FidoNet developers (Vince Perrillo and
Bob Hartman) also worked on BitNet, I am not surprised. Vince has since
moved from Naugatuck to Redmond. Both of them were influenced by early uucp
work, as was Thom Hendersen (SEA) and Wynn Wagner III. This was 15 years
ago folks. It is no longer rocket-science.
>You can read the namedroppers archives from that period
>to see what was thought of such algorithms vis-a-vis the developing
>DNS. (You will find quite a few imho interesting remarks from Stef
>regarding connectivity between the [IP reachable] Internet and other
>network organizations.)
???
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