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WD> == Willard Dawson  <dawson@willard.UUCP>

 WD> Ok.  How, then is this different than registration in the UUCP mapping
 WD> project?  For each site for which you agree to forward mail, you must
 WD> re-edit your configuration file.  That corresponds exactly to the
 WD> update process for the UUCP maps, meaning that for each new
 WD> connection, a forwarding site should send in one update.

Depends on the mailer software the gateway site is running.  Let's say that
someone's acting as a domain park gateway, for "foobar.org".  They have a
wildcard MX for *.foobar.org, and they run IDA sendmail.

They have an entry in their mailertable:

UUCP-A!%s       .foobar.org

This will route mail to blurfl.foobar.org to UUCP neighbor "blurfl", mail
to willard.foobar.org to UUCP neighbor "willard", and so on.  Add a new
neighbor?  Just set it right on up, the mail will get gatewayed.  Adding
automatic outbound rewriting (from blurfl!user to user@blurfl.foobar.org)
is easy as well.

Sending in updates?  To where?  Again, the only changes are local, and if
you design for flexibility, you don't even need to make those.

 WD> So, perhaps that "update it once and forget it" idea doesn't count as an
 WD> advantage of DNS over pathalias routing.

Perhaps.  Depends on your viewpoint.

 WD> Are YOU aware of how many sites connect via UUCP?  Many more than
 WD> actually get registed in either mail forwarding system, I feel sure.
 WD> The advent of cheap, readily available software to do UUCP means that
 WD> you'll see MANY more such sites.  Just because the Internet, with its
 WD> much higher costs for connections, is larger at this point in time,
 WD> does not mean that it will continue to be so indefinitely.

That doesn't mean those sites "connecting via UUCP" need to use the maps
for email, as we've said before; the sites I handle MXing for are *not* in
the maps, as UUCP is merely the best way to get their email back and forth
to us.

 WD> Of course, when ISDN gets tariffed for residential consumption, and
 WD> all the people with modems rush out and buy ISDN hardware, and after
 WD> some cheap TCP/IP over ISDN software gets out in the market, then you
 WD> may see people moving away from their cheap UUCP connections in
 WD> wholesale numbers.

If they want to do ftp, telnet, gopher, WAIS, WWW, and the like, they will.
If all they want is email, they can just do UUCP.  This has *nothing* to do
with DNS vs. pathalias.
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