Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!attctc!davidg From: davidg@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (David Guntner) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: UUCP Addresses Message-ID: <11284@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 2 Feb 90 21:26:27 GMT References: Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 34 From article , by tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence): > In <7419@tank.uchicago.edu> jill@tank.uchicago.edu (jill holly hansen) writes: >> My question is simply, why do we continue to get UUCP extensions? > > Different reasons; one is that there are some (many?) UUCP sites out > there that don't have registered domain names. For all I know about > the maps (which isn't enough; I probably shouldn't even be posting > this), all of the sites that are in the maps have geographical names > which the regional map coordinators determined for them. Then again, > this could just be my twisted view of the way I think it should be. It's just your twisted view of the way you think it should be. :-) Being a registered site has nothing to do with your domain name. There are lots of domains out there, such as .cts.com, .edu, .gov, .csnet, and so on. These are all valid domains, and a registered site can be on any of them, including (for now, at least) the .uucp pseudo-domain. Being a registered site simply means that addressing information for smart mailer databases will be out there for other machines to be able to find you. If user "foo" is on site "bar", which is a registered site that's still using the .uucp domain, you wouldn't have to bang-path an address to him, you'd just send it to foo@bar.UUCP like normal. Your reference to the "geographical names" is not competely correct, either. The .US domain is available, but it has a drawback for non-Internet sites in that a non-Internet site must find someone on the Internet which will act as a forwarder (sort-of a "gateway", if you will). I don't think that there's any big "push" to get everyone onto that domain.... :-) --Dave -- David Guntner UUCP: {ames, mit-eddie}!attctc!davidg INET: davidg@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (killer) "...New ship, but she's got the right name. ...Treat --Admiral L. McCoy her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home." "Encounter at Farpoint"