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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Internet and Bitnet Directories?
Message-ID: <2172@prune.bbn.com>
Date: 20 Nov 89 17:36:10 GMT
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In <5266@yunexus.UUCP> davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) writes:
>	1) have the bitnet registry use someone's bitnet->dns format
>	   translator to generate a set of nameserver files for the
>	   pseudo-domain .bitnet [I saw one once...]
>	2) [very optionally] provide a nameserver for .bitnet 

This won't work.  The folks at the NIC will not register a .BITNET nor
a .UUCP domain.  To quote the people there (I can't find the email I
got, so I don't want to put a name to it):
	Registering a .UUCP domain makes as much sense as changing
	your phone number based on who your carrier is.
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