[ih] bang paths, was Domain Names

[johnl at iecc.com (John R. Levine)]

>> 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.

Indeed.  That's what I meant by not embedding the route in the address.

R's,
John