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From: piet@cwi.nl (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Re: Where to get copies of RFC's? --> nic.ddn.mil
Message-ID: <2378@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 18 Oct 90 11:22:58 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.161631.522@ataritx.uucp> <26169.271b8651@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <A1291261265@thelake.mn.org>
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	>This is a good opportunity for a reminder that most UUCP sites, indeed
	>most sites handling E-mail, are not on the Internet and cannot use FTP.
	>Even the existence of a fully qualified domain name does not indicate that
	>a site is on the Internet.
	>
	>The Internet RFCs and other interesting documents can be fetched by mail
	>from info-server@nnsc.nsf.net or info-server@sh.cs.net.

And this is a good opportunity for a reminder that there are
numerous [uucp] hosts outside the USA. If EUnet sites (i.e.
in Europe) would blindly follow advices like the above, it
would cause unnecessary load on those info-servers and also
(and especially) on the transatlantic links. Both ftp and
info-server sites exist over here. EUnet sites should contact
their national backbone sites for details.

-- 
	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam	(piet@cwi.nl)