[81712] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Localized mail servers, global scope
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Fri Jun 24 14:09:16 2005
In-Reply-To: <42BBD8D9.70601@peter-dambier.de>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:54:39 -0500
To: peter@peter-dambier.de
From: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 11:56 AM +0200 2005-06-24, Peter Dambier wrote:
> |>Or do
> |>you want me to go back into ancient history and dig up UUCP and the
> |>route mapping tables that were developed?
>
> They still do work today.
Does UUCP and UUCP route maps scale? No. Can a trivially small
portion of the entire population of the world continue to use this
technology, while the rest of the world has moved beyond the 1960s?
Yes.
And your point is?
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