Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 90 17:22:34 GMT References: <1990Jun28.164938.23367@DSI.COM> <1990Jun28.202308.7152@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> <1990Jun29.142342.29248@DRD.Com> Organization: Otter Lake Leisure Society Lines: 41 X-Member-Of: STdNET [In article <1990Jun29.142342.29248@DRD.Com>, mark@DRD.Com (Mark Lawrence) writes ... ] > 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 mailhub is bungia.mn.org. I believe it's running Smail 2.5. There's no magic to Smail; it's not a very big or complicated program to set up (in contrast to @#$% sendmail!). I've been under the wing of the .mn.org domain for about a year and having the domain address works just dandy. > The apparent recalcitrance of .UUCP sites to register may have more to do > with ignorance than foot-dragging. Absolutely. Figuring out this stuff can be a real nightmare. I've been working on documentation for an Atari ST port of Smail and uucico (dcp) and the most difficult part I've encountered is providing bulletproof, general advice on getting registered. I had it easy. If I lived in Tennessee or Arizona or somesuch place I probably still wouldn't have an FQDN. A couple of days ago I received a mail query from the operator of a BBS on the Citadel network asking how to obtain a second-level domain address (perhaps .citadel.org, like .fidonet.org). I considered what (little) I knew: You fill out a bunch of paperwork and submit it to the Network Information Center, wherevertheheck that is.... My advice was to forget that idea and register in the ...US domain instead, or just hide behind an existing domain and concoct a monster-name like sysop@darkrealm.citadel.moundst.mn.org. -- Steve Yelvington at the lake in Minnesota steve@thelake.mn.org