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- From: dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <H9TkwB1w165w@willard.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 22:58:40 EST
- References: <1992Dec24.185932.29142@sol.UVic.CA>
- Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
- Lines: 55
-
- klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen) writes:
-
- > In article <?@willard.UUCP> dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson) writes:
- > > ... various stuff ...
- > Private E-mail to him produces the "bounce" message:
- > ---
- > Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 255
- > Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 13:44:49 -0500
- > From: MAILER-DAEMON@mathcs.emory.edu (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
- > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
- > uux failed. code -1
- > 554 <dawson@willard.waffle.atl.ga.us>... unknown mailer error 255
-
- So, what prompted you to try the old .waffle.atl.ga.us domain? That
- is being replaced with more congenial .alt.ga.us, and mail to the FQDN
- willard.atl.ga.us should work, soon if not now.
-
- > ----- Unsent message follows -----
- > From: klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen)
- > Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- >
- > In article <e539VB6w165w@willard.UUCP> you write:
- > >We likely all agree on that one. But, how do we make that information
- > >common knowledge?
- >
- > Well, define UUCP as a valid-domain,
- > and put it into the top-level name-servers.
- > Then, every query will return an **authoritative** "not found" result.
- > A "smart" name-server will put the "not found" response into its cache,
- > and will never bother the root name-server for a long time!
-
- 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.
-
- Seems like we could munge something that would not break existing DNS/
- SMTP software, but that would rather add functionality. That those don't
- do these things now is not really a point to be considered. It's the
- future of email we're scheming. If we can manage to agree that the
- Internet, and other networks, do indeed have a future, we might also come
- to terms with the idea that some people are going to think it a neat idea
- to be able to send mail from sites on one network to another in a
- predictable fashion.
-
- 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.
-
- --
- dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
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