Re: Where-am-I? (RE: [ga] WHOIS accuracy, and name deletions)

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, at 00:32 [=GMT+0100], Thomas Roessler wrote:
> On 2003-01-09 23:20:59 +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote:
>
> > There is and never was, as far as I know, a requirement to have a
> > website for a domain name. There is, I think, for receiving email
> > to postmaster@. RFC822 IIRC.
>
> RFC 822 has been obsoleted by RFC 2822.  RFC 2822 does not even
> contain the character string "postmaster" any more.

That is bad. And what it worse: RFC 822 is a few years older than the DNS
and the first domain names as we know them. So how can we tell what
"postmaster@domain" means there? Maybe ask D. Crocker?

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