Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!umich!ox.com!lokkur!scs From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted Message-ID: <1990Jul26.031043.8389@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> Date: 26 Jul 90 03:10:43 GMT References: <1990Jul16.202721.271@chinet.chi.il.us> <3143.26a2edd9@mccall.com> <1990Jul23.185016.7921@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Inland Sea Lines: 21 In article <3143.26a2edd9@mccall.com> tp@mccall.com writes: >Has anyone simply refused a link to a broken machine that is not and >end-node? Yes. We cut off one local system that wouldn't get it's modems fixed -- a week of news backup did horrid things to /usr/spool. Another site simply turned their system off for weeks on end. les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: >If you are the primary mail feed to someone else, why not just give them >a subdomain under your own domain? No one else needs to get involved >at all that way. There is no way in hell I want local bbss, peoples houses, and other peoples businesses appearing in my employers domain. We're a good guy and forward mail, MX, etc -- but won't list those sites as if we were organizationally responsible for them. Would you expect chinet.att.com were chinet still getting it's main feed from ihnp4?