Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:4024 news.sysadmin:2818 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Use domains without registering? Message-ID: Date: 4 Mar 90 13:43:03 GMT References: <72@dynasys.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp Organization: OSU Lines: 16 The problem is that, if you don't register a domain name with the NIC, then all you've done by changing your UUCP map entry is to change the name by which you're referred in UUCP addressing, which is to say that you've done yourself no good at all: Given that people can already reach you via the existing UUCP registry, you gain nothing by changing (adding what amount to aliases for) that name. The win of registering a domain name properly is that anyone anywhere can then reach you. And they don't have to know _how_ you're being reached, since domain addresses imply no routing or transport. I suppose you _could_ just add a domain name to your map entry, if you could get it past your regional map coordinator (which I doubt). But it seems awfully pointless. --karl