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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Domain Registration (was Re: rewriting FROM: lines)
Message-ID: <1003@twwells.uucp>
Date: 29 May 89 14:19:54 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <8577@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
: >If I call it 'b.c' instead and register it with the domain name service, I
: >just need to tell whatever nameserver on the net is handling the '.c'
: >domain the new information.  'me@b.c' before the move, 'me@b.c' after the
: >move.
:
: Are you really going to get a 2nd level domain for your single-user machine?
: How long will it take before an average uucp site will generate the new
: path to you?  I'd prefer to notify people of the change if I cared about
: getting their mail.

Twwells.com is a single-user machine. And if I were to change my map
entry, the procedure would be as follows: move the machine, change
the map entry, poll the *old* neighbors (or have them forward) till
no more mail comes in.

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Bill                            { uunet | novavax } !twwells!bill