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From: rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Stuck with .UUCP forever?
Summary: not as easy as you think
Message-ID: <57064@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 7 Jun 89 16:59:56 GMT
References: <May.22.01.46.36.1989.17215@porthos.rutgers.edu> <444@logicon.arpa> <9415@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
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> Let's say I create uucp.net and do name service for any *.uucp.net.  I 
> have some pathalias data that lists the route from various internet 
> sites to individual uucp sites.  I use this data for the MX request.  

But where do you get this data? Thats the hard part that everyone glosses
over.

> Something similar can be done now - try sending mail to 
> user@any_uucp_name.uunet.net.  It worked last time I tried it.  

There are many things that are not currently blocked on uunet.
As soon as the world starts dumping everything to uunet, I assure
you that filtering will begin.

Right now use of FOO.uu.net (not FOO.uunet.net) is strongly discouraged
for non directly connected sites and if it get abused, it will
be restricted.

--rick