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From: rja@edison.GE.COM (rja)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: %-@ formalization
Message-ID: <1980@edison.GE.COM>
Date: 19 May 89 12:23:33 GMT
References: <1635@ur-cc.UUCP> <53257@uunet.UU.NET> <7196@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Followup-To: comp.mail.misc
Organization: GE-Fanuc North America
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Rather than see the kludges like  user%relayhost@domain-name
formalised,  I'd prefer to see a real push to help sites that
aren't registered get registered and obtain domain-names 
(and if they are UUCP-only get pathalias or a smart-host).

I'm willing to help if there is some constructive role I 
can play, but a positive first step might be for the map
maintainers to try to contact sites as they update their
map entries and talk about how to get registered with
a real domain name.  With the .US domain setup and working 
for small sites it is no longer hard or complicated to get 
registered.  

I find that most academic instiutions are happy to act as
forwarders for a small UUCP site and if a site is really in
a bind, rutgers will often act as the forwarder and then
use bang syntax to route to the UUCP site.

In our own case here at GE-Fanuc, we went through the process
of getting our own subdomain and then were able to get a
nearby university to act as our Internet forwarder.  The folks
there have been friendly and helpful and I think this is true
of most universities on the Internet.

This has strayed a bit, so I've redirected followups to
comp.mail.misc.