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Article #2188Re: Mail-Server
From: Edward Vielmetti
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:02
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:02
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Bohdan Tashchuk (zeke@fasttech.com) wrote:
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: Poor Mr. Rubble. He's not directly on the Internet. He hasn't been able to
: persuade a forwarder to register an MX record for him. Fortunately, a site
: that IS on the Internet will accept mail for him. And yet, you don't want to
: send him a response. Why do you disenfranchise Mr. Rubble this way?
Because there are any number of people who will give Mr Rubble a domain
address, running the gamut from big commercial sites who will charge quite
a bit to small commercial sites which will charge somewhat less to "domain
parks" which will charge nothing at all, and if there's any hope to keeping
the Internet as a whole sane use of adhoc bang paths to shovel mail around
has to be discouraged in favor of better alternatives.
Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 GLOB
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!emv From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Mail-Server Date: 10 Nov 1992 05:02:14 GMT Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan Lines: 17 Message-ID: <1dnfp4INNf9n@nigel.msen.com> References: <1992Nov9.224937.4718@fasttech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.msen.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]