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- From: bdb@becker.GTS.ORG (Bruce Becker)
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.163210.12770@becker.GTS.ORG>
- Reply-To: uucpadm@becker.gts.org
- Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
- References: <1gg7eeINNfve@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <-ng1H!zgcb@atlantis.psu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:32:10 GMT
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- In article <-ng1H!zgcb@atlantis.psu.edu> barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
- |
- |They don't have to apply. All Bill, Chris, me, and others are saying if
- |you want to continue using pathalias, fine, but don't cry when J.
- |Random Site on the Internet can't send mail to you, since there's no
- |offical system to provide Internet->UUCP gateways for all Internet members.
- |Understand? The solution is to get yourself a registered DNS MX record,
- |and a site to MX for you. Plain and simple.
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- It seems logical for sites which are Internet/UUCP
- gateways to declare MX records for all the systems
- that they publish in their pathalias map entries -
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- sitex.uucp. MX 10 mail.mysys.mydom.
- sitey.uucp. MX 10 mail.mysys.mydom.
- ...
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- I know we don't do this at my workplace, but there
- seems no obvious reason not to do so.
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- ,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario
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