Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!cbnews!tgt
From: tgt@cbnews.ATT.COM (Tim Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: smail wants you to register a domain (using Path: for replies)
Message-ID: <935@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 88 01:59:37 GMT
References: <70@volition.dec.com> <71@volition.dec.com>
Reply-To: tgt@cbnews.ATT.COM (Tim Thompson)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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In article <71@volition.dec.com> vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) writes:
>
>Smail is a product of the UUCP Project, which maintains the d.* and u.*
>files in the UUCP map which is regularly posted to comp.mail.maps.  They
>will register your non-domainized name in u.* for free; they will register a
>domain name which you've gotten from some other network (CSNet, ARPANet,
>etc) in d.* for free; they will charge you something like $150 a year if
>they have to handle the paperwork between you and the SRI NIC, who issues
>domain names.
>

Just a small correction: Anything that appears in the d.* files are by
definition UUCP Zone members. The UUCP Zone consist of those domains
registered through the UUCP Project.

If you are hooked up with some other network and want your domain name in
the maps, then it will go in the u.* files for nothing.

Besides registering domains with SRI NIC, we do testing of UUCP Zone members
periodically to ensure that forwarding from the Internet works correctly.
If something is broke, it's our responsiblity to track it down and have
it fixed. Other services which may be developed within the confines of
the $150/year fee will be made available to UUCP Zone members only.
For someone who doesn't fit nicely into the .US domain, the UUCP Zone is
a cheap alternative to the other networks in obtaining an official
domain name recognized by multiple networks.

					Tim Thompson
					Domain Coordinator, The UUCP Project