Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 90 22:06:44 GMT References: <26A738A8.725B@tct.uucp> <26B059CA.57CF@tct.uucp> <3270.26b4665b@mccall.com> <3275.26b54aab@mccall.com> emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: If you use a domain name that doesn't belong to you, you deserve to lose. That simple enough? cf *.austin.ibm.com. Right. And one case of a domain name that doesn't belong to you is one that doesn't exist. In article lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes: There are an absurdly large number of sites that use the news reply path, and for me to bang on each one of them would be a waste of my time. Much easier is it to just reroute their mail. Such broken (RFC1036, section 2.1.6, fourth paragraph, first sentence) sites shouldn't be coddled. Their mail should simply be bounced. In this example I find myself in the remarkable position of being more rabid even than Karl :-) To have a domain and not register it would be silly. It happens all the time, but it never lasts long; it's simply too easy to Do The Right Thing(tm) and get it registered. This makes no sense at all, which may be why you referred to it as silly. To have a domain implies by definition that it is registered. Until a DNS query of NS.NIC.DDN.MIL returns the correct sort of information, "foo.com" is just a string of characters, not a domain. And yes, people construct silly strings of characters all the time - just read news.groups :-)