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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
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Subject: Re: List of sites posted from that are not on the UUCP map
Message-ID: <2808@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 20 Jan 89 18:13:03 GMT
References: <2803@epimass.EPI.COM> <6854@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
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In article <6854@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> wisner@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Bill Wisner) writes:
>>	b) The top-level domain they belong to does not appear in the UUCP
>>	   map.
>
>So? What REALLY matters is whether the top-level domain (or second-level
>domain, as the case may be) is listed with the NIC.

Perhaps I was unclear about my purpose.  I want to be able to reply to
all articles from my UUCP-only, registered domain gateway.  I am interested
in improving the accuracy of the UUCP map.  The top-level domains for
Italy and Ireland are not present and should be added.  I was in no way
implying that they are not legitimate.

>Send mail to SERVICE@SRI-NIC.ARPA and in the Subject: line put
>"NETINFO DOMAIN-INFO.TXT".

I already have that file, Bill.

>>The following are "miscellaneous oddities".  Some are top-level domains that
>>don't appear in the UUCP map.
>
>Again, that criterion is faulty. UUCP maps are not the ultimate authority
>on domains. (Although I will cheerfully admit that monstrosities like
>cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS are utterly bogus..)

What criterion?  I was only saying that registered UUCP-only sites
using the UUCP maps and "smail" cannot reply to them, unless they use
the "smart-host" mechanism to send any garbage addresses to somebody
directly on the Internet.  And that's a cruel thing to do.

>>handel.colostate.edu.
>
>The DNS strips trailing periods, so this name is theoretically valid.

Theoretically.  But smail 2.5 chokes on it.


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