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Article #3432Re: Mixed format addresses
From: Bruce Becker
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:32
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:32
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In article <-ng1H!zgcb@atlantis.psu.edu> barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes: | |They don't have to apply. All Bill, Chris, me, and others are saying if |you want to continue using pathalias, fine, but don't cry when J. |Random Site on the Internet can't send mail to you, since there's no |offical system to provide Internet->UUCP gateways for all Internet members. |Understand? The solution is to get yourself a registered DNS MX record, |and a site to MX for you. Plain and simple. It seems logical for sites which are Internet/UUCP gateways to declare MX records for all the systems that they publish in their pathalias map entries - sitex.uucp. MX 10 mail.mysys.mydom. sitey.uucp. MX 10 mail.mysys.mydom. ... I know we don't do this at my workplace, but there seems no obvious reason not to do so. -- ,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario a /i/ Internet: bdb@becker.gts.org Uucp: ...!web!becker!bdb `\o\-e "...symbolising Excitement and Fun." _< /_ -- Disneyland North investment brochure
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!geac!torsqnt!tmsoft!robohack!becker!bdb From: bdb@becker.GTS.ORG (Bruce Becker) Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses Message-ID: <1992Dec19.163210.12770@becker.GTS.ORG> Reply-To: uucpadm@becker.gts.org Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario References: <1gg7eeINNfve@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <-ng1H!zgcb@atlantis.psu.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:32:10 GMT Lines: 29