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From: dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: domain names, mailers and Internet addressing
Message-ID: <18731@wivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 02:01:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 02:01:23 1983
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Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma.  01879
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An earlier posting of this news item seems to have gotten lost...

My local news feed sysmgr sent me this note:

	"I had forgotten that bbncca was id'ing itself [within Netnews]
	 as .ARPA.  It might be better to have bbncca be .UUCP. Some
	 of the mailers (including mine) will try to send a reply via
	 the ARPA net & choke because of no arpanet connection & throw
	 the reply away."

Actually, I don't have INTERNET defined, so I'm not generating or using
internet syntax within UUCP mail.  Nevertheless, prompted by this, I have
the following questions.  I'm not a mail guru by any means, and perhaps
these might have been discussed at length earlier.  

	1.) What is the function of internet-style addressing within
	    UUCP mail systems?  I can only guess that some sites have
	    abstracted the USENET map into a database, and resolve
	    internet site names to physical paths.  Being new to the
	    UUCP net as a site administrator, I'm not aware of such
	    programs.

	2.) What SHOULD a UUCP site do with an address containing
	    the domain ".ARPA" when responding to mail?

	3.) Given that the only domain approved (so far) by the DoD NIC
	    is ".ARPA", what am I to make of an address locally like
	    "user@site.UUCP"?  Will ".UUCP" be given official status?

Any definitive answers to this very murky subject are most welcome.

Regards,
Steve Dyer
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