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From: honey@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (peter honeyman)
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Subject: Re: What if you don't *want* to be in a specific domain?
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Date: 29 Mar 89 05:59:26 GMT
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Guy Harris asks:
>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.

is the problem that all .de mail is mx-ed to csnet, which
drops it into unido for further forwarding?  just guessing ...

	peter