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From: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin,pubnet.sysops
Subject: Questions on UUCP Domains (specifically .US domain).
Keywords: .UUCP, .US, domain, E-mail
Message-ID: <461@icus.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 88 04:58:47 GMT
Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, New York
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Recently I've seen the increase of USENET sites being placed within domains.
I've been considering getting of the psuedo-domain .UUCP and get a .US domain
like a few sites have already. (eg. killer.DALLAS.TX.US, chinet.chi.il.us,
manta.pha.pa.us).

I have a few questions about this, since I am new to the "concept" of
domains.  Firstly, does one have to have a net-neighbor who is an Internet
site?   What is a NIC-handle?   Are domains case-sensitive, or is .Dallas.TX.US
the same as .DALLAS.TX.US and .dallas.tx.us, etc... 

For the .US domain is the accepted syntax:

	.full-city-name.state.US	- or can one have other things like
	.city-name-abbrev.state.US
	.local-organization.state.US (like Chinet does).

I've seen all three already, is there a particular standard I should
keep to.   I've been considering the name:

	icus.Islip.NY.US -or- icus.islip.ny.us -or- icus.isl.ny.us -or- etc..

How does being in a domain improve the network (mail response, path generation,
etc..).   Right now, when I do a pathalias database, since my local neighbor
talcott (see d.Top from the UUCP Project) is in the .us domain, all current
.us domains expand to:

	talcott!host.blah.blah.us!user

Is this correct to do this?  Or should the individual sites have in their
map files:

icus	.Islip.NY.US

Then again, the case-sensitivity comes to mind.  Do I have to put all
combinations in the map file?

Lastly, if I declare my map entry with the above entry, can my net-neighbors
use the syntax: (For example)

	gil@limbic.Islip.NY.US

Which would ultimately expand to:   icus!limbic!gil.

Any suggestions, answers, corrections should be E-mailed to me, I will
summarize in two weeks what I've learned.

-Lenny
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