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From: pc@ukc.ac.uk (R.P.A.Collinson)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Driving on the left side of the road :-)
Message-ID: <1835@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 19:05:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: eagle.1835
Posted: Thu Sep 11 19:05:34 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Sep-86 22:26:51 EDT
References: <2279@utai.UUCP> <257@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Reply-To: pc@ukc.ac.uk (R.P.A.Collinson)
Organization: U of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK
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UCL do not understand references to UK style domain names which are
not registered with the Name Registration Scheme in the UK.  This is
reasonable behaviour.  Currently, the UUCP network in the UK is in
transition between the `old style' <name>.uucp way of doing things and
a completely domain based system ending in the ARPA registered domain
.uk. UCL do understand the `uucp' names for all UK sites (they send them
to ukc to deal with :-) ).

The UUCP maps which we put out from ukc reflect the transition.
Every site has a uucp name and where relevent (ie. where the name
is registered) an alias to the uucp name is given as an alias in the
pathalias data.

It is also true to say that the mail system at UKC understands the
unregistered name (and some nasty combinations in between) so the
address 

	user%unregisteredname%ukc.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk

will work.

I hope that we will be moving more quickly with registration of
all UK sites soon.

PS Other countries do have the sense to drive on the left. It makes
it much easier to get the sword out, you know.