Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!ge-dab!ge-rtp!edison!rja From: rja@edison.GE.COM (rja) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: The UUCP domain [ sic] Summary: caveat emptor Keywords: NIC Message-ID: <1725@edison.GE.COM> Date: 27 Nov 88 02:05:13 GMT References: <1165@fig.bbn.com> <124@minya.UUCP> <1218@fig.bbn.com> <4859@bsu-cs.UUCP> Organization: GE-Fanuc North America Lines: 10 In article <4859@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: > .UUCP is already a domain name. This is my de facto observation. > -- > Rahul Dhesi UUCP:!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi However MANY sites stick to the rules of the NIC and do not handle names ending in .UUCP since according to the NIC, who created the domain-name system after all, .UUCP is not a real domain. rja@edison.ge.com