rae@unicus.UUCP (12/03/87)
Rayan writes: |Brad Templeton writes: |# There's no rule that says we can't have |# some aliases so that you're at TO.ON.Ca as well, is there? |There are no such rules. The problem in this case is that there is no mechanism |to do this kind of aliasing in a global fashion, or even within a single |network. The only way I can think of to accomplish this, is if *all* mail |goes through a gateway machine whose mailer can do the translation. I would assume that, with the official existance of ".Ca" [note 'nice' capitalization :-)] that there now exist in various places alias tables that say If mail with '.ca' on the end shows up, send it to foo.domain Could this not be expanded to say If mail with '.ca' or '.can' or '.cdn' or '.canada' on the end shows up, send it to foo.domain ? And equally so with .on, .ont, .ontario, .pe, .pei, .prince_edward_island etc? In any case, the use of 'only' above is a bit harsh. |Since this is not realistic, aliases for intermediate subdomains |(between your organization and Ca) really cannot exist as far as most of |the world is concerned. I would agree with this, but .ca, .cdn, .can and .canada should be world visible. One problem with this is name conflict with, say, Cameroon over using '.ca' or something. [Yes, I know 'Ca' is not an official name for Cameron -- it's just an example] Reid rae@unicus.com