Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!think!ames!attctc!davidg
From: davidg@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (David Guntner)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I find somebody else's sysadmin?
Message-ID: <10341@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 25 Nov 89 21:31:06 GMT
References: <161@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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From article <161@toaster.SFSU.EDU>, by eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott):

[Stuff deleted]
 
> 	If you see something from a
> 	uucp site that's not in the maps, then you DO have good
> 	reason to "hunt 'em down and kill 'em"--all uucp sites
> 	are supposed to be registered if their names are at all
> 	visible to the outside world.

Where did you get this idea from?  As I understand it, there is no REQUIREMENT
that a site be registered.  As I recall from the last time I read the
appropriate article in news.announce.newusers (granted, it's been a while),
the only requirement for being on Usenet is that a site must be willing and
able to pass messages to and from at least one other site already on the Net.
If it's not registered, that simply means that it won't get into the net maps,
which means that someone on the outside can't address something to
you@your.machine and have it get there.  They have to address it to
known!your.machine!you (where "known" is the machine that your site is passing
messages to/from (assumning that "known" IS a registered site here...)).  So,
it is encouraged, and even to a site's (and it's users') benifit, that the
site be registered.  However, it is not *required*.
                 --Dave

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