Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Getting around EUNet restrictions Message-ID: Date: 23 Jun 89 15:39:32 GMT References: <8442@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 26 In-reply-to: wnp@killer.DALLAS.TX.US's message of 23 Jun 89 11:46:39 GMT wnp@killer.dallas.tx.us writes: I still take issue with what I call blacklisting -- if I am a site in Europe, and I set up my own link to the US, I still ought to be able to send mail to users at regular EUnet sites I have been sorely tempted to create a domain passthru.org which I would register here, with which to create "legitimate" connectivity between the Hither and Yon of disenfranchised European sites. That is, if I create passthru.org, with its home at one of my machines, and with advertised connectivity to certain sites, then those sites would be able to get mail anyhow. If this presents a problem because those sites do not themselves show up with #N lines in the map data (because EUNet refuses to let them be registered in the normal European country u.xxx.[0-9] map files), then those sites could instead advertise themselves as entities within passthru.org itself, obliterating the problem entirely. The now-accessible participating entities will pay for the connectivity but will have legitimate registration to claim. The only bad side effect I can see is that mail *from* Europe *to* Europe would then go via the USA. This is bad but possibly unavoidable. Only explicit refusal to pass mail for this one domain would prevent its success. If anyone in Europe wants to work with me on such an arrangement, yell. --Karl