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Why is there no bitnet.net in DNS?

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From: Roy Smith
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1989 15:58
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Why doesn't bitnet doesn't have a DNS domain name?  It sure seems like having:

	*.bitnet.net	MX	10	cunyvm.cuny.edu

would make a lot of sense.  It would be one less hack we'd all have to
worry about getting right in our sendmail.cf (or whatever) files.
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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Why is there no bitnet.net in DNS?
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Date: 17 Jul 89 15:58:32 GMT
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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