[2826] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I-D (Re: Out of date contact information )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@isi.edu)
Fri May 3 16:42:39 1996
From: bmanning@isi.edu
To: paul@vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 12:58:25 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9605031833.AA14805@wisdom.home.vix.com> from "Paul A Vixie" at May 3, 96 11:33:57 am
>
> > From: bmanning@ISI.EDU
> >
> > You might consider using the domain Example.ORG (sort of the
> > RFC 1918 of domains) if you decide to build some appendixen.
>
> If a domain example were all I needed, I'd do as you suggest. What I'm
> trying to avoid is aliases point to either real, or imagined addresses.
> If I put "root: steve" in the document, some poor Steve somewhere some
> time is going to get inundated by root's mail and he'll (correctly and
> justly) blame _me_ for it.
>
Might be a good time to reflect that using fqdn's in alias files
is a good practice; e.g.
geek: bmanning
is less prefered than
geek: bmanning@example.org
(Oh, and if volunteer use would be an acceptable alternative,
please consider using bmanning as an example :)
--
--bill
