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Re: Mixed format addresses

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From: John Stanley
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:48
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In article <-ng1H!zgcb@atlantis.psu.edu> barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
>In article <1gg7eeINNfve@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
>>I can be in charge of my "little section" of the DNS?

>Yes.

>>Just what protocol do YOU know of that will allow a UUCP site to change the
>>DNS records for its MX site? 

>mail hostmaster@my.mx.dom.ain

And if hostmaster is on vacation? If he doesn't feel like doing it this
week? 

Mail is hardly "being in charge" of anything.

>And guess what, if you were to update your UUCP map entry, you'd have to
>do something similar anyway.

So? I haven't claimed otherwise. All I am trying to do is counter the
silly claim that anyone can be in charge of their part of the DNS.
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From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
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Date: 14 Dec 92 04:48:55 GMT
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