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From: rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: New Host-Requirement RFCs
Summary: not true
Message-ID: <70891@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 27 Oct 89 14:35:03 GMT
References: <8910201839.AA29376@arcturus.mitre.org> <1136@odin.SGI.COM>
Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA
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In article <1136@odin.SGI.COM>, wicinski@zamna.sgi.com writes:
> give you a domain.  Sure, you could pay uunet 35 bucks for almost the
> same thing, but their forms are just the NIC forms redone, and they
> stay make you look for the nameservers yourself.

No. The $35 is to pay for the hassle involved with reading and correcting the
forms (30% arrive with errors in them) and for RUNNING THE NAMESERVERS.

Frankly the $35 one time fee doesn't cover the time and effort involved.

What we do make you do is find your own FORWARDER (not too hard)
or get the PERMISSION of a site directly connected to uunet to allow
your mail to be forwarded through them (not an unreasonable position).

uunet provides over 400 nameservers of the type you describe.

It IS easy.

---rick