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- From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 17:39:54 GMT
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- In article <qpaRrAOABh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> David.Keegel@apana.org.au writes:
- |barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan P Barrett) writes:
- |>.UUCP is not a valid top-level domain.
- |
- |... as far as The Internet is concerned.
-
- Which is all that matters, since the DNS is an Internet construct. If you
- want to call something a "domain name", then it had better be in the DNS, or
- you're wrong.
-
- That's why I (try to, I often forget to) refer to it as "the .UUCP
- pseudo-domain".
-
- Bill
-