Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!linac!midway!gargoyle!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Another Novice Needs sendmail Help Message-ID: <1990Dec07.200835.20108@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 7 Dec 90 20:08:35 GMT References: <59@sgtech.UUCP> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Lines: 32 In article karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: >Somewhat more mundanely...t'ain't no such domain as "sgtech.uucp" in a >Real Sense. The top-level domain ".uucp" is a hack instigated vaguely >of necessity by the UUCP Project when getting registrations going and >when creating smail 2.x. Having hosts within that domain is a bit >bizarre at best. Has anyone considered an internet nameserver for .uucp? Or is this one of those silly questions where everyone else already knows why something so obvious isn't being done? The .uucp appendage doesn't mean anything to real uucp sites - it had to be intended as syntactic sugar to coax internet sites into believing that they really exist. If Rutgers or Uunet (or anyone else, for that matter) would provide name service for everything in the uucp maps the illusion would be complete and everyone else could stop treating .uucp as a special case. Is this physically or politically impossible, or is no one willing to do it? >You'd do much better to register a real domain and >use it for all news/mail-related correspondence. People keep using postal analogies about electronic mail: Go to post office - clerk says: "Sorry sir, we can't handle your mail until you change your name. The forms are available at ... " Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us