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From: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Use domains without registering?
Message-ID: <1050@vision.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 90 18:17:59 GMT
References: <72@dynasys.UUCP> <9909@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1990Mar9.191451.28093@val.com>
Reply-To: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies)
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
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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...

Sites which are not on the internet often have to use UUCP maps.  The whole
world doesn't revolve around the internet y'know! :-)   [Yet!]

We use domain information to route all our mail via the UK gateway (ukc.ac.uk),
unless there is a "better" way of sending email.  In practice this means that
a direct link exists from our site to the destination.

Eg.	We have a direct link to vware.mn.org.  Thus we can use that machine
	to route all our .mn.org email (assuming we've permission of the
	sysadmin for vware, of course).

Chris
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