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From: rayan@utegc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: .bc.ca domain park
Message-ID: <8709260438.AA22419@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 00:39:02 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 26 00:39:02 1987
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In article <1471@geac.UUCP> daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown) writes:
# In article <8709220156.AA20159@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> lamy@utegc.UUCP writes:
# >What happens when a BitNet site sends to .bc.ca? A European X.400 site or a
# >CDNNET site?  An Arpa site -- in this case, who is the authoritative name
# >server, and how does it get informed of .ca sites not on the Arpanet?
# 
#   If the message is coming via the ARPAnet, or being gatewayed by any
# subnet which sees UUNET as the gateway into (what used to be?) usenet,
# then it will be directed by UUNET to the proper recipient.

Usenet and .CA sites (or even UUCP sites under .CA) are completely different
things. If appropriate, messages will arrive (from the Internet) at UUNET
for a .CA subdomain, because the .CA authority has arranged for it. This
is an example of something the individual subdomain cannot affect on its own,
in this case whether a subscriber to UUNET or not.

rayan