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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: What if you don't *want* to be in a specific domain?
Message-ID: <1311@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 89 00:54:35 GMT
References: <782@pcsbst.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >To explain: Here in Germany, most sites go through "unido" and
 >are in the .de domain. unido has made arrangements with other european/U.S.
 >backbone sites to poll only them. This puts us into the rather unfortunate
 >situation of having to depend on one site to get all of our mail should
 >we decide to join .de.

Are you saying that somebody's decided that if you want to be in the
".de" domain you *have* to get your mail through "unido"? If so, why?
Domain names aren't supposed to imply anything about how you get your
mail; domains aren't networks.  Does "pathalias", or whatever, require
that all mail to domainized names in a given domain go through the same
gateway?  That sounds sort of uncool.