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From: esj@bud.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson)
Newsgroups: news.newsites,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: new site aleytys.UU.NET
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Date: 2 Jun 88 16:01:05 GMT
References: <159@aleytys.UU.NET> <130@skep2.ATT.COM>
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In article <130@skep2.ATT.COM> wcs@skep2.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.,2G218,x0705,) writes:
>In article <159@aleytys.UU.NET> mike@aleytys.UU.NET (Michael Kent) writes:
>> #N	aleytys
>> #W	mike@aleytys.UU.NET (Michael Kent); Sun May 22 09:24:25 EDT 1988
>
>I've never seen the "domain" .UU.NET - is it real, or did
>you make it up?  If it's not real, then you'll really have trouble
>getting mail from people with domain-based mailers, which is to say
>"most of the world".
>

UUNET seems to have a MX record in their nameserver which probably
looks something like this:

*.uu.net	in	mx	10 uunet.uu.net

If you run decent mailer software, this means that mail to xxxx.uu.net
will get delivered to uunet.uu.net. Matched with a pretty smart sendmail.cf
at uunet.uu.net, this allows the the address aleytys.uu.net to work
just fine. 

A very nice (and maybe undocumented) feature that a uunet connection 
provides for UUCP only sites.


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