Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jetson!john
From: john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US (John Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: smail wants you to register a domain (using Path: for replies)
Message-ID: <118@jetson.UPMA.MD.US>
Date: 24 Aug 88 04:50:32 GMT
References: <70@volition.dec.com> <71@volition.dec.com>
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In article <71@volition.dec.com>, vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) writes:
[Lots of stuff I agree with.  Also:]
> 3. NSFNet, BARRNet, and others.  I don't know much about these.
Mostly research networks with specific funding sources.  They set up
IP networks with gateways to the rest of the Internet.  You usually
have to be a member of a research consortium to get on them.

> 4. UUNet.  I believe that your domain name has to end in .uu.net for this,
Nope.  My forwarder is uunet; they're happy to forward for any domain
name you can get registered.  I hear they might even deal with the NIC
for you, but I'm not sure.  As you say, you do need to be a uunet
subscriber, which is a good deal.

> 5. Join the .US domain.  This costs nothing.  It's not a "domain name", since
>   they want you to register each of your hosts with them except in special
>   situations.  But it is - free - and it gets you an MX record.
Well, it is a domain name; it's just not a domain name under which you
can have other domain names.  It gets you an MX record, but you have
to arrange for a server yourself, just as in the UUCP Project case.
Being a uunet subscriber makes this easy....

[Well, vix, we seem to be quoting each other all over the net this
week.  :-)]
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