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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!emory!wa4mei!kd4nc!vdbsan!willard!dawson
- From: dawson@willard.atl.ga.us (Willard Dawson)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <k1auwB4w165w@willard.atl.ga.us>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 01:39:31 EST
- References: <725768036snx@crynwr.com>
- Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
- Lines: 61
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- nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
-
- > In article <H9TkwB1w165w@willard.UUCP> dawson@willard.UUCP writes:
- >
- > How will that help? You'll still NOT deliver mail to valid sites. If
- > you're going to suggest that .UUCP be made a valid Internet domain, then
- > there should be some mechanism worked out to allow DNS to route mail to
- > a site in the .UUCP domain. No, DNS doesn't do that now.
- >
- > There is no such thing as a site in the .UUCP domain, and such sites
- > are not valid sites. willard.UUCP only tells me that someone,
- > somewhere, transports mail to a UUCP host called willard. I don't
- > CARE how you get your email. You could get it via carrier pigeon
- > for all I care. Would you advocate registering the .PIGEON domain if
- > you did? Why not register a .SLIP domain or a .PPP domain?
-
- The voice of the Internet Gestapo. Thanks, I'm really glad to hear that
- I don't exist, that I'm a non-site.
-
- > There is no point in trying to convince you that you're wrong; the
- > fact that people can't send you mail should convince you. I see that
- > you're getting a FQDN, so why do you continue to argue for .UUCP??
-
- Did I argue for .UUCP? Or, have you totally missed the larger context
- I've been striving for?
-
- > The Internet has, in the past, taken the easy way out on this one, only
- > attempting to define mail delivery to sites that are provably on the
- > Internet. That, IMO, is rather short-sighted. "Good enough," perhaps.
- > Not, I say.
- >
- > I suppose that, before the advent of MX records and MX-smart mailers,
- > your statement would have been correct. It is now losing wrong. Is
- > crynwr.com "provably on the Internet"? No, I have no IP access at all.
- >
- > Now, you're probably going to reply that even though I'm not on the
- > Internet, my MX and SOA records are.
-
- Exactly.
-
- > So what?? I pay PSI $25/month
- > to maintain those records. If they piss me off, I go to someone else.
- > I don't care that I can't ``vi named.crynwr''; they don't need to
- > be changed because they work.
-
- Good for you.
-
- > They have a wildcard MX record for
- > crynwr.com, so news.crynwr.com and fax.crynwr.com both work just fine.
- >
- > -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
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-
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