Re: conlang.org update

Piermaria Maraziti <pierma@...> wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, John Cowan wrote:
>
>> How about a pure relay server, so that cowan@conlang.org just forwards
>> to cowan@ccil.org (my current address)?  Does that resolve your
>> concerns?
>
>That would not solve the point: a relay receives the E-Mail and than
>forwards it to to final destination - at least if I'm not missing
>anything. It's how the @gdr.net addresses had gone since time being.
Piermaria is right. On the other hand, I could refer all conlang.org mail
to some other server without its passing through my machine. However, it
must still go to some main server before it can be sent on to many
individual mailboxes at different places. Of course I can do anything I
want to subdomains, so that I could, for example, make all mail to
lojban.conlang.org go to ccil.org. That's one reason that even people
without a webserver might want to claim a conlang.org domain name. However,
even this kind of delivery address can cause problems if the target server
does not know that it has another legal name. Otherwise, ccil.org is likely
to complain that it knows nothing about lojban.conlang.org and bounce the
mail.

  -- David
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