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From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: looking for an Internet forwarder
Message-ID: <3079@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 89 20:24:34 GMT
References: <714@vector.UUCP> <1863@edison.GE.COM>
Reply-To: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT
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In article <1863@edison.GE.COM> rja@edison.CHO.GE.COM writes:
>In article <714@vector.UUCP>, chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>> I am looking for a site willing to be registered as my Internet forwarder,

>One need not have an Internet forwarder to have a domain-name, except
>for folks in the *.US domain.

Of course, that domain name then only as preparation for the future, because
if you show that domain name to anyone off-site, it has to have a forwarder
to be valid.  As I understand it, the .US thing requires you to register
*every* host under a "domain", which defaults the whole idea.

Uunet is a good thing for people who want domain names.  If you subscribe
to them directly, you get a domain existence along with their other services.
If you talk to a Uunet subscriber, you can pay uunet $35 *one time*, and
they'll help you get your domain, and supply forwarders.

>I _do_ hope that others will follow Chip's lead and convert over to
>a domain-name.  We here at edison.CHO.GE.COM maintain a current set of
>maps and also have indirect Internet access and we have an awful time
>getting mail through to sites in the _fake_ domain of .UUCP but have
>had little or no trouble communicating with sites having a 
>real domain-name.

I wish that were true for everyone in GE.  The machine "gemed" has no map
entry, and is reachable only because their feeds mention them in their
entries.  I pummel any of my users that I ever find typing ".UUCP".
Unregistered hosts are what cause me the most problems, along with mailers
that desecrate From: lines and put %'s into them.


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