Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!motcsd!xdos!doug
From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Re: Stuck with .UUCP forever?
Message-ID: <320@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 89 17:00:46 GMT
References: <1728@fig.bbn.com> <3790007@eecs.nwu.edu>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <3790007@eecs.nwu.edu> gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) writes:
>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."

Ok. But I'm still missing one central point: why can't I simply register
my machine as "xdos.com", and automatically have Internet forwarders
know who I am? Why is it necessary to make a personal arrangement with
some such machine? I don't see why it can't be as easy as it is with
registering uucp map connections. Is it just due to historical problems
that grew out of the old arpanet, that no one has gotten around to
changing? Or is there some inherent reason for it?

Internet folks seem to universally agree that domains are the way to
go. Well, if I could get a real domain *purely* by following a registration
procedure, with no "would *someone* please do me a a big personal favor
and forward mail" arrangements necessary, then it would seem that most .UUCP
sites would be .COM sites very rapidly. What, if anything, is wrong with
this picture?
	Thanks,
		Doug
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Doug Merritt		{pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug
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