Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!apple!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Grumpy != grumpy Message-ID: <12881@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 8 Nov 88 00:48:46 GMT References: <398@ditka.UUCP> <42300005@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <1689@edison.GE.COM> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 31 As quoted from <1689@edison.GE.COM> by rja@edison.GE.COM (rja): +--------------- | In article <42300005@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>, kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes: | > Are we supposed to register EVERY site on EVERY local network with a name | > unique to the world, just so that some rude people will be happy? How long | > before we run out of unique names? | | The real solution is for all of the sites to get real domain names. The | .US domain removes any former objections based on complexity. | | I'm glad that people are beginning to think in terms of domainising their | site names even in the uucp-only world. I hope everyone gets switched over. +--------------- It'll never happen. Case in point: tdi2, which talks to ncoast and is listed in the maps because *occasionally* mail is sent to/from them from outside of ncoast. Every time the topic comes up with the de-facto administrator of the system (and its little brother tdi1) the response is always the same: "Why should we? We don't use it enough." And yet they use it enough to warrant a map listing. (I have to agree that they don't use it enough to warrant even a .US domain name.) You'll *never* get *all* UUCP sites registered. Face the fact, don't just stand there and tell us that it's the solution to all our problems. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, comp.sources.misc moderator and one admin of ncoast PA UN*X uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu allberyb@skybridge.sdi.cwru.edu allbery@uunet.uu.net comp.sources.misc is moving off ncoast -- please do NOT send submissions direct Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@.