Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!splut!jay
From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.newsites
Subject: Re: Map addition for u.usa.ny.1, a new site: "entire".
Message-ID: <320@splut.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 22:11:05 GMT
References: <1788@epimass.EPI.COM>
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
Lines: 26
Keywords: new site, map approval: working
Summary: UUPC is not the only way PCs will get on the maps.

In article <1788@epimass.EPI.COM>, jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
> As for little computers owned by individuals: if UUPC becomes wildly
> popular, we're stll going to run up against a wall at some point
> where we can't have everybody on the map.  Since the domain
> registration fee was instituted, I've been waiting for the other shoe
> to drop (that is, a fee for having a site appear in the map).

That's exxactly why I haven't - and won't - register for a domain. I can't
see a reason why I should spend money to be able to have someone send me
mail at 'jay@splut.confmsys.com' (or whatever). The domain system doesn't
accommodate individual systems worth a flip. If there were no fee for
registering domains, then I would have no heartburn about registering a
'houston.pc' domain and acting as the domain gateway. We will probably wind
up with a domain system on the order of '.city-pc.state', but it'll take a
lot of heartache. The alternative is to tell the PC owners that they can't
hook up to the net and exxpect to get mail. Anyone trying to tell me that
(except my feed :-) will get told to hang it in their ear.

Note that uupc isn't the only way to get on the net - more and more PCs can
run real Unix...

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