Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!gds From: gds@sri-spam.istc.sri.com (The lost Bostonian) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: How do I tell an internet address from a UUCP address? Message-ID: <9786@sri-spam.istc.sri.com> Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 13:23:56 EST Article-I.D.: sri-spam.9786 Posted: Sat Dec 13 13:23:56 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 23:21:48 EST References: <4058@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> <5259@ukme.ukma.ms.uky.csnet> <5271@ukme.ukma.ms.uky.csnet> Organization: the Bay Area, for now Lines: 12 If eddie.mit.edu is sufficiently "smart" (able to resolve a good % of uucp addresses) it might consider becoming authoritative for that % of uucp addresses in the domain namespace, rather than handing off those requests to some other site that accepts queries for MX records. I admit that this can be a political as well as technical issue. eddie.mit.edu might not want to accept queries and forward mail from the whole Internet to a certain % of uucp hosts, even if much of that traffic is already being directed into the uucp network via eddie.mit.edu. --gregbo