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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Bitnet gateways?
Message-ID: <1688@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 89 01:43:50 GMT
References: <1989Oct3.234604.10248@NCoast.ORG> <31716@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <584@trwrc.RC.TRW.COM> <31774@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <587@trwrc.RC.TRW.COM>
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Penn State University
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In article <587@trwrc.RC.TRW.COM> agnew@trwrc.UUCP (Robert A. Agnew) writes:
|In article <31774@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
|>>Should I frown when your uunet mail comes across to my internet?
|>
|>Once more, in English, please?
[nonsensical gobbeldygook deleted]
|at Berkeley ought to know that! Besides why do usenet people register in
|domain .COM. Why don't they register in domain .UUCP? This way we could filter
|out uu traffic altogether :-). 
First thing is, 'usenet people' don't register in domain .COM because
'usenet people' are scattered all over different nets.  If you modify your
question to be what I assume you meant, "why do uucp people register in domain
.COM?", it's because that's where they belong.  Or if they register in domain
.ORG, it's because that's where they belong.  Or ... well, you get the picture.
They don't register in domain .UUCP because it doesn't exist.

  Bill

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