[ih] bang paths, was Domain Names

[craig at aland.bbn.com (Craig Partridge)]

> In article <69946A38-7AE0-418B-9F1B-696B750A1CF1 at google.com> you write:
> >yes the bang-path was parallel.
> >
> >eventually they met when gateways linked hosts in the two systems.
> Pathalias eventually went away due to the combination of people realizing
> that mail worked better if the route wasn't embedded in the address, and
> the Internet and DNS becoming widely enough available that everyone could
> use MX records for routing.  Uucp is still a pretty good protocol for
> transferring mail by phone call, and I still know a site or two that
> uses it to transfer mail with RFC822 addresses.

Also the decision of much of USENET to start using domain names internally.

The assimilation of USENET (and CSNET and to a lesser degree BITNET) into
ARPANET was intentionally enabled...

Craig