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
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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