Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!orc!inews!iwarp.intel.com!gargoyle!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Another Novice Needs sendmail Help
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.203054.17265@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 13 Dec 90 20:30:54 GMT
References: <1990Dec07.200835.20108@chinet.chi.il.us> <1990Dec8.234514.11668@vmp.com> <1990Dec12.021841.4983@Latour.Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Lines: 18

In article <1990Dec12.021841.4983@Latour.Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca> mcr@fts1.UUCP writes:

>  What needs to be done is to encourage people to start registering
>under their municipal domains. I understand that .us doesn't want
>people registering AND having sub-domains. I really can't fanthom 
>the reasons for this kind of thing. It just seems silly to me. So
>does .com -- what is wrong with .com.us? (Other than its length)

What is a municipal domain and why should they exist apart from
the forwarders?  It makes sense to me to make most uucp sites
subdomains of their internet forwarder so that wild-card MX's 
can allow them to come and go without bothering anyone but the
forwarder.  If all the uucp sites register, the size of the
map dbm files will have to double to accomodate both the uucp
name and the domain-style name.  Why is that a good thing?

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us