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From: mark@DRD.Com (Mark Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted
Message-ID: <1990Jun29.142342.29248@DRD.Com>
Date: 29 Jun 90 14:23:42 GMT
References: <1990Jun28.164938.23367@DSI.COM> <KARL.90Jun28154651@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1990Jun28.202308.7152@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
Reply-To: mark@drd.Com (Mark Lawrence)
Organization: DRD Corporation, Tulsa, OK
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} karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes:
} 
} >I would appreciate it if others who are willing to assist in these
} >matters would stand up and be counted.  Be part of the solution, not
} >part of the problem.
} 
wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner) wrote:
} OK, then. I, like Karl, am willing to help people get domains
} registered with the NIC and line up nameservers for them. I can't
} offer MX forwarding, since I don't bother running UUCP (and who'd want
} to call Alaska?) but I have been known in the past to put people in
} contact with local internet sites who would act as MX forwarders.

Another option is to do what the folks in Minnesota have done: organize a
park (e.g. TulsaRelay.Org or Relay.Tulsa.OK.US or some such), get it 
registered and connected up to your local friendly neighborhood Internet 
host and invite all commers to register their sites under that domain.

I'm not sure of the mechanics of the actual routing at the hub (is smail
x.y or deliver capable of it?) but it seems like a do-able thing for
sites who *don't* enjoy direct connection the the internet.

The apparent recalcitrance of .UUCP sites to register may have more to do
with ignorance than foot-dragging.  I know I was the first site to
approach the administrator of the local Internet host and we learned how
to do it together with some helpful boosts (thanks, Karl).
-- 
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