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Article #3407Re: %-@ formalization
From: rja
Date: Fri, 19 May 1989 12:23
Date: Fri, 19 May 1989 12:23
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Rather than see the kludges like user%relayhost@domain-name formalised, I'd prefer to see a real push to help sites that aren't registered get registered and obtain domain-names (and if they are UUCP-only get pathalias or a smart-host). I'm willing to help if there is some constructive role I can play, but a positive first step might be for the map maintainers to try to contact sites as they update their map entries and talk about how to get registered with a real domain name. With the .US domain setup and working for small sites it is no longer hard or complicated to get registered. I find that most academic instiutions are happy to act as forwarders for a small UUCP site and if a site is really in a bind, rutgers will often act as the forwarder and then use bang syntax to route to the UUCP site. In our own case here at GE-Fanuc, we went through the process of getting our own subdomain and then were able to get a nearby university to act as our Internet forwarder. The folks there have been friendly and helpful and I think this is true of most universities on the Internet. This has strayed a bit, so I've redirected followups to comp.mail.misc.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!albanycs!crdgw1!ge-rtp!edison!rja From: rja@edison.GE.COM (rja) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: %-@ formalization Message-ID: <1980@edison.GE.COM> Date: 19 May 89 12:23:33 GMT References: <1635@ur-cc.UUCP> <53257@uunet.UU.NET> <7196@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Followup-To: comp.mail.misc Organization: GE-Fanuc North America Lines: 26