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> Other failures leading to the failure of X.400 was

naming. The biggest failure of X.400 was naming. X.400/X.500 style naming was and remains an unqualified disaster. Not that the pre-DNS alternative (UUCP) was great, but that name@domain turns out to be infinitely better than X.400.



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