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From: pjg@acsu.Buffalo.EDU (Paul Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted
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Date: 29 Jun 90 04:45:14 GMT
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tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:

|For myself I don't feel the UUCP Zone was a bad thing.  What *was* bad
|was the way various news and mail packages started plugging in
|"yoursite.UUCP" as the default return address, whether or not you had
|actually registered!  That ruined the usefulness of the pseudo-domain,
|because you could never trust the designation.  Done properly, with
|everything effectively MX'ed from UUCP gateways, it might have worked.

it shouldn't have since being registered and using the ".uucp" are
mutually exclusive.  being registered means having a real name.
".uucp" *might* mean someone is in the uucp maps.  then again it might
not.