Re: [cobalt-users] Hostname on Qube2 (was Mail with Subdomain.domain)

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:29 AM 3/15/00 -0600, you wrote:

> Jeff, I know you do not do Qube2, but I noticed you use www as a hostname in
> the above example. Is that a recommended hostname or just something you used
> for an example?

I recommend www.  I don't remember if cobalt does or not, but if I do it 
that way, people can type in "www.nobaloney.net" to find my site, and 
that's kind of standard; isn't it <smile>?  If I used "joe" as my hostname, 
people would have to type in "joe.nobaloney.net"; how many people would do 
THAT intuitively <smile>.

> I am still trying to figure out the receipt of address sent
> to a none existing user. It has been suggested that the address be set as
> @www.domain.com - maybe I missed a point with this suggestion. Does this
> imply that the hostname must be www for this to work?

Yes.  Perhaps all of us who've replied should have replied 
"@<hostname>.domain.com"; that might have made it more clear.

> Please do not give, sell, or otherwise distribute our address
> information to any other organization or entity.

I don't have to.  You've posted it to a mailing list that gets archived on 
the web.  Lots of spammers use "crawlers" and "spiders" to get 
names/addresses off the web.  So you've already done it <frown>.

Jeff

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