Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 07:00:08 +1000 From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM Cc: imp@rover.village.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (over)zealous mail bouncing Message-ID: <199707282100.HAA00342@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:02:14 EST." <199707251502.KAA04543@compound.east.sun.com>
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> Um, I would point out that one wouldn't be on an Internet mailing list > unless one were on the Internet. I had access to internet email and was subscribed to internet mailing lists long before I ever had direct access to the internet. This was all handled by the wonders of uucp, acsnet, fidonet gateway software and MX records. > Most computers have nothing to do > with the Internet. There are a large number of email facilities on > mvs, vm, vines, netware, fidonet, uucp, appletalk, or what-have-you. Yep. > My 'majority' figure may become a 'minority' in the not-to-distant > future, but the I'm *guessing* that the majority of email-capable > systems are still not Internetworked. Of course this depends on your > definition of Internetworked, and of email-capable. I'm trying to use > colloquial meanings here. I think the point is spurious, nevertheless. You don't need an IP to host internet mail. What you do need is a gateway and a valid MX receiver for your domain. The address you use still needs to be a valid mailbox@fdqn. In fact, one of the fundamental concepts of the internet itself is the "gateway". It can be described, after all, as a bunch of connected gateways with "leaf" systems hanging off it, whether viewed from a pure ip connection point of view, or from the email system (which relies on working MX records). Regards, David -- David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/
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