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From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Re: Stuck with .UUCP forever?
Message-ID: <3790007@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 19 May 89 17:53:08 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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/ news.sysadmin / doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) / May 18, 1989 /
>Ok, now I've been informed that all I need is to dig up yet another
>cooperative site (on the arpanet) to do mail forwarding for me. [...]that's
>not necessarily going to be easy.
[...]
>My naive feeling about this is that a small technical solution
>would solve it: what if there were a way to get a proper domain address
>*without* requiring mail forwarding? Technically it seems like a reasonable
>solution. All you need is for smart mailers (particularly at arpa gateways)
>to understand how to send to e.g. doug@xdos.COM, right? And that general sort
>of capability is already widespread.

But that is EXACTLY what Internet forwarders are!  Registering your domain
simply means telling Internet mailers which "arpa gateways", as you call
them, "understand how to send to, e.g. xdos.com."

You do NOT have to be directly connected to your forwarders!  Of course,
you'll get your mail faster if you are, but what else is new?

Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,chinet,att}!nucsrl!gore