On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> And when these domains do appear, you just have to hope that your
> users won't send mail there, or it will arrive to the xxx.ch
> subdomain of cam.ac.uk.
Oh, absolutely. We went round several circles arguing this recently, and
concluded that there was nothing we could do to improve matters. We
*don't* have a list of local domains - a global domain takes precedence.
Only if there is no global domain do we try for local abbreviations.
> And, of course, we had a user sending mail to something.md when
> he meant something.md.huji.ac.il when the domain something.md
> appeared...
As soon as we realized, we stopped issuing internal domains consisting
of only two letters, to minimize the risk. (The existing two letter ones
to back to the days before we were connected to the Internet.)
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
