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From: wisner@shadooby.cc.umich.edu (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: looking for an Internet forwarder
Message-ID: <205@shadooby.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 89 22:59:15 GMT
References: <714@vector.UUCP> <1863@edison.GE.COM>
Reply-To: wisner@shadooby.cc.umich.edu (Bill Wisner)
Organization: Amnesia International
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rja@edison.CHO.GE.COM:
>One need not have an Internet forwarder to have a domain-name, except
>for folks in the *.US domain.  As an example, there is a site local
>to this site which is registered in the .COM domain that has no Internet
>mail forwarder.  

Nonsense. If you want a domain, and you want that domain to work, you need
an MX forwarder.

With an MX forwarder, any self-respecting Internet site with a reasonably
recent mailer will be able to get mail to you. Without one you will only
get mail from sites that use UUCP maps.