Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cdin-1!dsinc!vu-vlsi!mpx1!mpx2!erik From: erik@mpx2.mpx.com (Erik Murrey) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Stuck with .UUCP forever? Message-ID: <10003@mpx2.mpx.com> Date: 7 Jun 89 23:54:28 GMT References: <444@logicon.arpa> <56904@uunet.UU.NET> <14379@bfmny0.UUCP> <1780@fig.bbn.com> Reply-To: erik@mpx2.mpx.com (Erik Murrey) Organization: MPX Data Systems, Inc. , Wayne, PA Lines: 37 In article <1780@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: >In article <56904@uunet.UU.NET> rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes: >>The trick is finding someone stupid enough to be willing to be the >>uucp forwarder for 15,000 uucp hosts. > >In <14379@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes: >>Is there no way under the current/proposed scheme to share the >>forwarding work load in an organized way? > >No. Under the domain system, you can basically say one of two things: > 1. Give *.UUCP mail to me > 2. Give a.UUCP, b.UUCP, c.UUCP, d.UUCP, etc., mail to me >No one site is willing to forward for the world, so choice 1 is out. >(Nor is it feasible for them to take in all the load then hand it off >helper sites -- that's the same thing as routing to the final destination.) This is why I think the .US domain is a *good thing*. If the coordinators can find enough internet forwarders, and divide the load appropriately, then .UUCP would(could) slowly go away. And since registration is free, I don't see why people wouldn't pass up the chance to have a proper domain name for their homes/school/businesses. If we had enough forwarders, in the key geographical areas, then your connection could be a local phone call away. As a small step, I will be willing to help out (time permitting) any internet site in setting up the proper sendmail/cf files to forward domains via UUCP. Please drop me a line via e-mail if you are interested. ... Erik -- Erik Murrey /| // /~~~~/ | / MPX Data Systems, Inc. / | / / /____/ |/ erik@mpx.com / / / / /| Data Systems, Inc. {vu-vlsi, bpa, cbmvax}!mpx1!erik / / / / |====================