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- Subject: Re: A new public InterNet-access site!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.221003.11550@telerama.pgh.pa.us>
- From: doug@telerama.pgh.pa.us (Doug Luce)
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:10:03 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.223244.10071@panix.com>
- Organization: Telerama
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- Alexis Rosen (alexis@panix.com) wrote:
- > root@enigma1.com (System Operator) writes:
- > > o InterNet E-Mail: to over 2 million sites around the World
- > Are you guys an internet site, or are you doing UUCP to an internet host?
- > It's not clear from your message. (The paragraph above seems to imply FTP
- > capability, but I can't find "enigma1.com" in the DNS.)
- > If you're on the internet, do you have a floating IP, or did the DNS just
- > mess up your domain application?
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- They're MX'd through PSI (uupsi, I would assume).
-
- You can no longer consider "being on the Internet" a synonym of "being
- a TCP/IP host." I.e. rather than busting on UUCP hosts for using a
- fuzzy term like "Internet" in their marketing propaganda, you should
- probably qualify your own host as being TCP/IP.
-
- They are probably implying that you can use an FTP<->mail gateway to
- get any file you want.
-
- Doug
- Telerama BBS
- Dial-in TCP/IP
- yow!
-