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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: <946@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 88 14:46:21 GMT
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Reply-To: tgt@cbnews.ATT.COM (Tim Thompson)
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In article <935@cbnews.ATT.COM> tgt@cbnews.ATT.COM (Tim Thompson) writes:
>> 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.


In article <44401@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes:
>Nonsense. There are hundreds of non-UUCP Zone members in the d.* files
>In fact, they probably outnumber the UUCP Zone members.
>

Yes, at the current time this is true, but not for long. We had a
meeting of the UUCP Project Coordinators (Mark Horton, Mel Pleasant,
and myself).

It was decided that domains appearing in the d.* files should by UUCP
Zone member ONLY! Non-UUCP Zone domains should go into the u.* files.
We are charging the UUCP Zone members, and as such, they need to be
separated out from the run-of-the-mill map entries. Any and all
services we provide, both now and in the future, will only be made
available to UUCP Zone members, and as such, we need to keep them in
their own separate set of map files.

As the Domain Coordinator for the UUCP Project, I am in the midst of an
audit of the d.* files. Any map entry in them that is not for a UUCP
Zone member will be moved to the u.* files by the regional
coordinators. We're not denying the publication of any NIC-recognized
domain, but we DO want to make sure that the d.* files  consists purely
of UUCP Zone members. This will be happening over the next couple of
months, and probably won't be finished until the end of the year.



>The d.* files are a joke. They should never have been separated from the
>u.* files. I don't think ANYBODY understands what goes where.
>
>--rick

As to the d.* files being a joke, that is your opinion, and you are
entitled to it. I strongly differ with this opinion.

Also, just because YOU don't understand what goes where doesn't mean
the nobody else does. I happen to understand it perfectly, as does Mark
and Mel, and most (if not all) of the regional coordinators.  We are in
the process of implementing the above; just because it doesn't exist
that way now doesn't mean we don't understand.

					Tim Thompson