Path: utzoo!dciem!dretor!nrcaer!julie!mcr
From: mcr@julie.UUCP (Michael Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: domains (was Re: looking for an Internet forwarder)
Message-ID: <0812.AA0812@julie>
Date: 16 Mar 89 22:31:26 GMT
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  A recent question about maps, and what to do with them reminded me
that I hadn't registered julie as a node, and she isn't in the
maps yet. (As soon as I remember where I put my atlas, I'll pop it off..)
  But this brings up a question of domains --- specifically, I'd
rather be known by one (and I suspect from the stuff that my upfeed
sent me, anyone with any maps around would rather I was known as
julie.ott.something.somenet)

Rick Adams writes:
>Wrong. ALL legitimate domain names are required to have an Internet
>forwarder. If there is a local site, that has no internet mail forwarder, then
>it is not properly registered. (There's more to registration than
>just starting to use a domain style name)

  What _is_ involved? I can think of two ways that me, as a more or less
private node could be known:
  julie.amiga.cbm.com (if CBM was willing) [I presume that CBM would
necesarily be in the .com domain, although I don't think they currently
are in any)

   or maybe

  julie.ott.ca

  But, my current uucp link is nrcaer, part of the National Research
Council, (they don't have a domaine name either, or don't know it)
but I would guess they'd wind up under ".edu", except that most
universities in Canada are known in the ".ca" domaine?

  I suspect that there is a conference somewhere under comp.mail
or net. to deal with this, but my conference lists are currently somewhere
else. (with my disk space)





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