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From: rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey)
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Subject: Re: Bogus .UUCP addresses, was: Is UUNET going to upgrade?
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Date: 26 Jun 91 04:54:48 GMT
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In article <1991Jun21.214642.8746@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes:
>others comment about .UUCP addresses.
>
>point 1) There are lots of declared, valid, .UUCP addresses.
>Comment: If your mailer is too stupid to handle MX's and .UUCP
>addresses, it should at least be smart enough to pass the job off to a
>site that can do the job. That does NOT mean uunet, unless you are the
>uunet customer. There does seem to be at least one Major Manufacturer
>whose main gateway can't. That says lots to me about xyz.com - none
>good.
>
	There is NO such thing as a valid .UUCP address; PERIOD. It is
	NOT a valid domain name. It is used by people who don't know
	any better. It is also used as a hack to tell a mailer to do
	a pathalias lookup.

	Any MX site that accepts .UUCP syntax is:

	1) Violating the domain name rules.
	2) Violating the domain name rules.
	3) Violating the domain name rules.

	Get the idea??

	Any reasonable mailer should immediately, if not sooner, bounce
	a .UUCP address back from whence it came and inform the sender
	to either use ! addresses if they want to get to a UUCP site
	or else look up the REAL domain name for the site you want to
	reach.

	Hopefully, maybe in 100 years or so, people will realize that
	.UUCP ISN'T a valid domain name and stands a VERY good chance
	of being bounced or dropped at sites that can't afford to manually
	route 100's of misinformed UUCP sites.

		ex overloaded, NO, .UUCP ISN'T a valid doamin, SA,

			-Rob