[Gllug] (no subject)

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 21 Aug 2003, t.clarke wrote:
>David Dammerell wrote:

Doesn't your mail client extract the sender's name from the headers of
the message being replied to?

>Even so, there surely must be some sort of IP-No/geographical correlation,
>otherwise wouldn't routing be a nightmare ??

Not really, no. Clearly much of the backbone is aware of where the
rest is, but routing is largely a matter of automated discovery. This
can be seen most clearly with the old Class A networks which are now
split up, potentially between sites/organisations in several
countries.

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