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  1. Xref: sparky comp.mail.misc:3959 comp.mail.uucp:2311
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!skyking!stanley
  3. From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
  5. Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
  6. Message-ID: <1gh3nnINNk1c@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
  7. Date: 14 Dec 92 04:48:55 GMT
  8. Article-I.D.: gaia.1gh3nnINNk1c
  9. Organization: Oregon State University, College of Oceanography
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  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: skyking.oce.orst.edu
  12.  
  13. In article <-ng1H!zgcb@atlantis.psu.edu> barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
  14. >In article <1gg7eeINNfve@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
  15. >>I can be in charge of my "little section" of the DNS?
  16.  
  17. >Yes.
  18.  
  19. >>Just what protocol do YOU know of that will allow a UUCP site to change the
  20. >>DNS records for its MX site? 
  21.  
  22. >mail hostmaster@my.mx.dom.ain
  23.  
  24. And if hostmaster is on vacation? If he doesn't feel like doing it this
  25. week? 
  26.  
  27. Mail is hardly "being in charge" of anything.
  28.  
  29. >And guess what, if you were to update your UUCP map entry, you'd have to
  30. >do something similar anyway.
  31.  
  32. So? I haven't claimed otherwise. All I am trying to do is counter the
  33. silly claim that anyone can be in charge of their part of the DNS.
  34.