[net.mail] Site names as uucp domains

ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) (02/06/84)

One additional problem with using machine names as domain names is
that domains may wish to have more than one gateway site.  This makes
a lot of sense for domains that are geographicly distributed, such as the
proposed ".att" domain.  Sites could use whichever gateway was
closest to them, so that (for example) a site in New Jersey could use a
machine in New Jersey as a gateway rather than sending the mail halfway
across the country to ihnp4.  Furthermore, at some point the quantity
of mail traffic in and out of AT&T will become too great for one machine
to handle.
					Kenneth Almquist