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From: ben@val.com (Ben Thornton)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Use domains without registering?
Message-ID: <1990Mar9.191451.28093@val.com>
Date: 9 Mar 90 19:14:51 GMT
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spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes:

>   We don't use the uucp maps to send mail to sites with proper
> domain names.

  This brings up a question I have had for some time:  Who DOES
use the domain name information contained in the UUCP maps?
...and why?  Seems superfluous to me if you have a valid registered
domain...


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