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).
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-- Todd Vierling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
