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nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:

> In article <H9TkwB1w165w@willard.UUCP> dawson@willard.UUCP writes:
> 
>    How will that help?  You'll still NOT deliver mail to valid sites.  If
>    you're going to suggest that .UUCP be made a valid Internet domain, then
>    there should be some mechanism worked out to allow DNS to route mail to
>    a site in the .UUCP domain.  No, DNS doesn't do that now.
> 
> There is no such thing as a site in the .UUCP domain, and such sites
> are not valid sites.  willard.UUCP only tells me that someone,
> somewhere, transports mail to a UUCP host called willard.  I don't
> CARE how you get your email.  You could get it via carrier pigeon
> for all I care.  Would you advocate registering the .PIGEON domain if
> you did?  Why not register a .SLIP domain or a .PPP domain?

The voice of the Internet Gestapo.  Thanks, I'm really glad to hear that
I don't exist, that I'm a non-site.

> There is no point in trying to convince you that you're wrong; the
> fact that people can't send you mail should convince you.  I see that
> you're getting a FQDN, so why do you continue to argue for .UUCP??

Did I argue for .UUCP?  Or, have you totally missed the larger context
I've been striving for?

>    The Internet has, in the past, taken the easy way out on this one, only
>    attempting to define mail delivery to sites that are provably on the
>    Internet.  That, IMO, is rather short-sighted.  "Good enough," perhaps.
>    Not, I say.
> 
> I suppose that, before the advent of MX records and MX-smart mailers,
> your statement would have been correct.  It is now losing wrong.  Is
> crynwr.com "provably on the Internet"?  No, I have no IP access at all.
> 
> Now, you're probably going to reply that even though I'm not on the
> Internet, my MX and SOA records are.

Exactly.

> So what??  I pay PSI $25/month
> to maintain those records.  If they piss me off, I go to someone else.
> I don't care that I can't ``vi named.crynwr''; they don't need to
> be changed because they work.

Good for you.

> They have a wildcard MX record for
> crynwr.com, so news.crynwr.com and fax.crynwr.com both work just fine.
> 
> -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
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