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From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner)
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Subject: Re: Bogus .UUCP addresses, was: Is UUNET going to upgrade?
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David Lesher:
>Yep, that's true. Instead of fixing your system to handle addresses of
>non-royal peerage, encourage your users that have tried to mail to
>those addresses, and failed, to use the alternative approach.  Just
>have them POST their mail, several times maybe, with world-wide
>distribution.  That will work, and who could possibly complain about
>it, right?

>Suppose ATT said: We won't bother sending calls to those folks in GTE
>land. We've always hated GTE, and they're a pain, so to hell with
>them.  Or the USPS said: Why should we bust our gut sending mail to
>Canada - those damn Canadians don't buy our stamps.
>[sarcasm mode, note no smily.]

AT&T and GTE have agreed on one single standard format for telephone
numbers.  The USPS and Canada use the same addresses.  Those seperate
networks have no problem communicating.

The Internet and UUCPland have agreed one one common address format,
too: user@host.domain.  Any UUCP host can get a valid domain fairly
easily and become part of the civilized world.

I'll now repeat an offer I've made before (and Karl Kleinpaste has
made quite often): if any UUCP site out there wants a domain,
contact me.  I will personally see that it is registered, arrange
for nameservers, and if necessary even provide MX forwarding.  And
I'll do this all for free.

Bill Wisner <wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU> Gryphon Gang Saratoga CA 95070