27 Nov
2013
27 Nov
'13
7:02 p.m.
On 27 Nov 2013, at 03:22, Doug Merritt wrote:
I may be wrong, but it was my strong impression that,
back in the
day, this could not be said of anyone else's code, BBN or otherwise.
Perhaps there is someone here who remembers this better than I do, but in the UK there
were some fairly seriously heroic things that had to be done because we had the wrong
order for names, and there were then all sorts of really exciting ambiguities resulting
from that (what did "cs.x.edu" mean?). May be another tool would have been
better than sendmail, but whatever it was would have been pretty hairy.