Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!hc!pprg.unm.edu!kurt From: kurt@pprg.unm.edu (Kurt Zeilenga) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: What does "on the internet" mean -- to YOU? Message-ID: <23667@pprg.unm.edu> Date: 18 Nov 88 03:01:48 GMT References: <151@logicon.arpa> <53@gnome6.pa.dec.com> Reply-To: kurt@pprg.unm.edu (Kurt Zeilenga) Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 16 Paul Vixie writes: >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. To me, on the Internet (note the capital 'I') implies you can hold some form of IP conversation with SRI-NIC.ARPA (or some other major ARPAnet/MILnet/NSFnet host). Being on an internet implies you talk IP (even if just to yourself :-). The terms I prefer to use in the context of mail is "directly attached" "indirectly attached" to the Internet. What we really need to do is get MX records for those hosts/sites not directly attached and blow off the UUCP maps all together.... -- Kurt