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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!crynwr!nelson
- From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Mixed format addresses
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <725768036snx@crynwr.com>
- References: <H9TkwB1w165w@willard.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 02:13:56 GMT
- Organization: Crynwr Software
- Lines: 34
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- 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?
-
- 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??
-
- 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. 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. 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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