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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
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Subject: Re: What if you don't *want* to be in a specific domain?
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Date: 30 Mar 89 07:03:06 GMT
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In article <160@cs.columbia.edu> jordan@cs.columbia.edu (Jordan Hayes) wrote:
>Peter Honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu> gueses:

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

>that's the symptom, but not the problem.  there's no reason why you
>couldn't get a different mx-er for your (jkh's) (sub-)domain (of .de),
>presuming that you can get them to do it, that is.

If I correctly understood the discussion of European national backbones
and their policies earlier this year, the problem is that if one
chooses an alternate mx-er one may be be refused mail forwarding
through any host on the national net.  Foreign mail would work, but
local communications would be direct-dial only.  Some of these networks
(the German and Italian ones?) have monopolistic policies that are
alien to USENET sensibilities.

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