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From: lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Use domains without registering?
Message-ID: <1761@aurora.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 12 Mar 90 20:05:17 GMT
References: <72@dynasys.UUCP> <9909@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1990Mar9.191451.28093@val.com>
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In article <1990Mar9.191451.28093@val.com> ben@val.com (Ben Thornton) writes:

>  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...

We do, for one. Since we don't have a direct internet connection, it
makes sense to use a route extrapolated from the uucp maps before
punting to a top level domain gateway. We do the same thing for bitnet
hosts.
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Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
     {alberta,decwrl}!atha!lyndon || lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA

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