Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: What does "on the internet" mean -- to YOU? Message-ID: <53@gnome6.pa.dec.com> Date: 17 Nov 88 23:19:37 GMT References: <151@logicon.arpa> Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 20 # $BEGIN PIPEDREAM$ # Of course, the real solution would be to see everyone on the Internet. # Maybe in our lifetimes? # $END PIPEDREAM$ See Subject: line. To _me_, "on the internet" means, in the context of mail, that you have either: [1] an A record in the DNS and an SMTP server, or [2] an MX record in the DNS which points to a host with an A record in the DNS that has an SMTP server. I am open to alternative definitions. Because by this definition, everybody could be on the internet and 90% of all links could be over UUCP. Remember, $35 to UUNET, paid one time only, gets you a domain name and an MX record. -- Paul Vixie Work: vixie@decwrl.dec.com decwrl!vixie +1 415 853 6600 Play: paul@vixie.sf.ca.us vixie!paul +1 415 864 7013