Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wang!fitz From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Getting an Internet forwarder Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 90 23:07:00 GMT Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 20 The discussion about getting everyone out of the UUCP zone is all totally accurate - things would work much better if everyone had a registered domain. But getting a domain requires getting a forwarder, which isn't easy, or even possible for a lot of people. Even in Eastern MA (a pretty Internet-rich area) the UUCP sites vastly outnumber the forwarders. Not many Internet sites, especially commercial ones, can afford to dedicated resources and modem time to feeding mail to people's PCs. I'd expect that in places like Vermont and Maine, with few Internet nodes (if any), access would be much worse, and there are a few dozen UUCP sites out there. Some nudging could probably get well over half of the currently domainless UUCP sites registered, because they're in a major city or are willing to spend the $$$ for long distance rates. But the last few isolated nodes will still be in the UUCP zone for a while yet. --- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz