Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!tim
From: tim@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Tim Nelson)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: UUCP Addresses
Message-ID: <2047@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 90 20:04:00 GMT
References: <7419@tank.uchicago.edu> <1990Feb3.081741.23991@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: tim.nelson@Toronto.NCR.COM (Tim Nelson)
Organization: NCR Canada Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario
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In article <1990Feb3.081741.23991@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz) writes:
>In article <7419@tank.uchicago.edu> jill@tank.uchicago.edu (jill holly hansen) writes:
>>I understand that the UUCP extension on addresses is obsolete. For
>>example, I can't respond to a posting from someone such as
>>xxx@whatever.UUCP without changing it to xxx@whatever.UU.net.
>>
... [stuff deleted] ...
>
>All that .UUCP should mean is that the machine is not (yet) registered with
>a full domain name, and that it IS registered with the UUCP project. If there
>is a domain name, it ought to be using that instead of .UUCP, and if it isn't
>registered as a UUCP host, no one knows how to get to it (though you could
>probably figure out a route by looking at the return path that an article
>took to get to you).

Ok, maybe I don't understand something here.

I have the following addresses:
     tim.nelson@toronto.ncr.com,
     tim@ncrcan.uucp, and
     ...!uunet!attcan!ncrcan!tim

What is the "full domain name" which you are talking about?
Is it "toronto.ncr.com"?
Although that is our subdomain, ncr.com being the domain.
It was my understanding that this is our internet address;
although (again one of those repeated words 8) we are not connected to
internet, you can see that we have forwarding through RELAY.CSNET (I believe).

Will or is it a uucp project to have domain names in the internet format, or
will they be some other unique format?

And besides all that, why is it that a when a friend of mine sends me
e-mail using the uucp address, I receive it in as little as an hour
while it takes usually 1 to 2 days when using the internet address?
(damned if I know)

Finally, I am looking for a text(s) in order to increase my knowledge
greatly in the are of usenet, and e-mail in general, as I am supposedly
the (pseudo) second most knowledgeable person in our group regarding
e-mail/usenet/internet. (thank goodness I am not THE most knowledgeable)
Does anyone have any pointers?  Perhaps documentation available from
some mail server or another?

any help would be appreciated,
(don't forget that you can e-mail to me instead of posting)

thanx & later,

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ncr canada       | internet     Tim.Nelson@Toronto.NCR.COM
(416) 826-9000   | 6865 Century Ave, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5N 2E2
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