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In article <1glhcpINNkgt@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>,
stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
In article <BzBBMJ.4xp.2@cs.cmu.edu> Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu writes:
> My "attitude" is that those people who voluntarily provide support by 
> providing MX records do not automatically come under my control just
> because they are providing an MX record for me. Period. 

I missed the start of this discussion, so I hope that I am have not
completely misunderstood, but it looks as though two groups of people
are talking at cross purposes here, with both groups being right (or
nearly right).

It seems to me that you *can* be in charge of _the MX records_, even
if you are *not* in charge of _the people_ or _the equipment_ that does
some of the work that is needed to make the MX records useful.

For example, suppose that you have a site that is not IP reachable,
and that a volunteer (with the necessary equipment, connectivity, etc.)
is willing to provide nameserver service for you.  If you register a zone
for your site and edit the master file for that zone, then I would say
that you are in charge of the zone, even though you would not be able
to install the updates yourself.  On the other hand, it seems clear that
you would not be in charge of the volunteer person.

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
RFC822: barrett@ee.und.ac.za                    Bang: m2xenix!undeed!barrett