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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: rewriting FROM: lines (really domain names)
Message-ID: <3266@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 89 06:01:17 GMT
References: <31051@sri-unix.SRI.COM> <160@zebra.UUCP> <171@icdi10.UUCP> <3254@cps3xx.UUCP> <56591@uunet.UU.NET>
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Reply-To: rang@cpswh.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
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In-reply-to: rick@uunet.UU.NET's message of 2 Jun 89 18:56:27 GMT

In article <56591@uunet.UU.NET> rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes:

   In article <3254@cps3xx.UUCP>, rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
   >   You are in the domain uu.net, which is a subdomain of the net
   > domain.  "net" is the domain of non-Internet networks (more or less,
   > someone can probably clarify this) and "uu.net" is the domain of the
   > UUCP network.

   That comes as a major surprise to us! We thought it was our
   company domain. (Or do we own the UUCP network now?)

   --rick

<red face> "The domain of the UUNET Communications Services company,
which provides many UUCP sites with a domain-style address."  Better?

		Anton (more of an Internet person :-)

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