Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck
From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.newsites
Subject: Re: Map addition for u.usa.ny.1, a new site: "entire".
Message-ID: <1777@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 29 Dec 87 05:24:22 GMT
References: <3121@entire.xerox.com>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
Lines: 33
Keywords: new site, map approval: working
Summary: Forget it, you're in the .xerox.com domain and don't belong
	 on the map.

In article <3121@entire.xerox.com> uucp@entire.xerox.com (UUCP Administrator) writes:
>Here is yet another map entry for a new site here in sunny East Rochester, NY.
...
>#N	entire
>#S	Intel 80386 PC System; Interactive Systems, 386/ix (Unix System V.3)
...
>entire=	entire.xerox.com

Sorry, but we can't very well have every PC in the world on the UUCP
map.  Since you are in the .xerox.com domain it's unnecessary anyway;
my site already knows how to mail to machines in the .xerox.com
domain and if entire.xerox.com were your official name, I could mail
to you without any information being added to the UUCP map. (The mail
would go to the .xerox.com gateway and then to you).

In any case, with a company the size of Xerox I doubt if you'd get
to be entire.xerox.com; at the least you'd be entire.division.xerox.com
where "division" is some subdomain inside Xerox.

To give you an example of how it works at a much tinier company: I
maintain the internal pathalias tables for the .epi.com domain.
We can add additional hosts as we like, and no one outside the
company knows the details; the UUCP maps say how to get to .epi.com
and we take care of the rest.

I suggest you consult with some e-mail experts inside your company;
your internal mail configuration should be approved by them and it
isn't really our concern.


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