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- From: bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <F627VB3w165w@1776.COM>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 12:23:14 EST
- References: <1992Dec20.140240.15607@smoke.marlboro.vt.us>
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- Organization: 1776 Enterprises, Sudbury MA
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- jhood@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (Lord Yertle) writes:
- > lance@Circle.Raleigh.NC.US (Lance A. Brown) writes:
- >
- > >OK, now for the fun part. Finding a new MX site that is willing to
- > >forward your mail. I'd be worried about finding an Internet site nearby
- > >UUCP-wise that will MX for anybody.
- >
- > You have to do this before you send the (re)registration in. It's
- > kind of pointless otherwise, and I'm not sure they'd let you do it.
-
- There really is a "Catch 22". You need an operational MX in order to regis-
- ter, but until you've registered, you can't be absolutely sure that your site
- name doesn't conflict with someone else's. If you have a really good rela-
- tionship with your MX site, you can at least get them to do a "whois" for
- you, and this will identify a conflicting site name that has fully percolated
- into the system. But until you've actually registered, you can't be sure
- that someone won't beat you to the name.
-
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