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- From: barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan P Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <1h595qINNaf4@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:24:26 GMT
- References: <1glhcpINNkgt@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
- Organization: Dept. Elec. Eng., Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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- In article <1glhcpINNkgt@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>,
- stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
- In article <BzBBMJ.4xp.2@cs.cmu.edu> Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu writes:
- > My "attitude" is that those people who voluntarily provide support by
- > providing MX records do not automatically come under my control just
- > because they are providing an MX record for me. Period.
-
- I missed the start of this discussion, so I hope that I am have not
- completely misunderstood, but it looks as though two groups of people
- are talking at cross purposes here, with both groups being right (or
- nearly right).
-
- It seems to me that you *can* be in charge of _the MX records_, even
- if you are *not* in charge of _the people_ or _the equipment_ that does
- some of the work that is needed to make the MX records useful.
-
- For example, suppose that you have a site that is not IP reachable,
- and that a volunteer (with the necessary equipment, connectivity, etc.)
- is willing to provide nameserver service for you. If you register a zone
- for your site and edit the master file for that zone, then I would say
- that you are in charge of the zone, even though you would not be able
- to install the updates yourself. On the other hand, it seems clear that
- you would not be in charge of the volunteer person.
-
- --apb
- Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
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