Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!molnar
From: molnar@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Tom Molnar)
Newsgroups: can.uucp
Subject: Re: Adhocnet
Message-ID: <1989Jun27.104021.6304@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 27 Jun 89 14:40:21 GMT
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forster@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Russ Forster) writes:
# molnar@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Tom Molnar) writes:
# > That address is bogus. Gateways should reject it.  There is no such
# > registered 2ld under CA.  Until it IS registered, adhocnet.ca should not
# > be used. Period.
# > -- 
# 
# 	Thats a bit harsh don't you think?  Did you ever think we just might
# 	be trying to get registered?  No I think not.

I'm afraid the tone of my earlier posting was harsh, and for that I apologize.

However, as my colleague Jean-Francois Lamy has stated, it is not a
good idea for anyone to use a domain style address that is not
registered.  The gateways have no clue how to handle mail for
unregistered domains.  Unregistered domains have been a source of
aggravation to me ever since we became a gateway.

It doesn't matter if you are in the process of registering or not, please don't
use a domain until it is in fact registered and have established at least one
forwarder.  This gateway only knows how to reach registered domains -- we have 
no knowledge of up and coming registrations.

-- 
Tom Molnar
Unix Systems Group, University of Toronto Computing Services.