Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcdchg!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted Message-ID: <1990Jul2.200426.1357@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 2 Jul 90 20:04:26 GMT References: <1990Jun28.164938.23367@DSI.COM> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Lines: 33 In article karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: >+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ >| I, personifying the nameservers and mailers of Ohio State Computer | >| Science, am willing to be nameserver and MX for ___ANYBODY___ who is | >| willing to make the UUCP calls to osu-cis to pick up his/her own mail. | >+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ >My only restriction is that I am severely limited in the amount of >long distance calling I can do, and so we support it only to our >vendors. Hence, you have to be willing & able to make the calls >yourself. But then, in keeping with my other philosophical viewpoints >about "them that wants the data pays the phone bill," this is Right. If this is accessable through the same machine/port servers that the annon uucp archives at osu-cis use, potential callers should be aware that the port server often answers the call but is unable to establish a connection to the host (This is not a flame - I love those archives but it might be a problem for people making regular calls). >It is in my interest to get sites DNS-registered. That's why I'm >willing to make this kind of offer/effort. Getting sites registered >reduces the likelihood that I will be hassled about how to reach >obscure places. In the long run (admittedly, the run can seem mighty >long), it saves me time to do this. Why not make it simpler for everyone concerned by setting up a single domain name just for the purpose of inheriting uucp orphans as subdomain members and encourage them to do the same. If everyone is running routing software it is simple enough to make a uucp neighbor into a subdomain. Once someone sets up the 2nd level domain name, there would not need to be any more paperwork involved. Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us