RE: DNS lookup for SMTP

At least now I know the relationships of Dick, Jane, Sally, and SPOT.

The predecessors to the Dick and Jane primers were the phonics-based McGuffey Readers, which were popular from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, and the Elson Basic Readers. William Scott Gray (1885-1960), director of the Curriculum Foundation Series at Scott, Foresman and Company and dean of the University of Chicago's college of education, co-authored with William H. Elson the Elson Basic Readers (renamed the Elson-Gray Basic Readers in 1936), which Scott Foresman published in Chicago, Illinois.[1][2][3] Gray's research focused on methods to improve reading instruction using content that would be of interest children and develop their word-recognition skills.[4] Gray's vision was to tie "subject area" books in health, science, social studies, and arithmetic (each discipline having its own series of graded texts also published by Scott Foresman) with the vocabulary mastered in the basic readers, thus vastly improving readability in these same areas.[citation needed]

Zerna Sharp, a former teacher, came up with the idea for what became the Dick and Jane readers for elementary school children while working as a reading consultant and textbook editor for Scott Foresman.[1][2] She worked with Gray to develop the readers after noting the reduced reading ability of children and urged the use of a new reading format for primers. In addition, Sharp developed the main characters of "Dick" and "Jane," the older brother and sister in a fictional family that included "Mother," "Father," and a younger sister named "Sally," their pets, "Spot" (originally a cat in the 1930s, but a dog in later editions), and "Puff," their cat; and a toy teddy bear named "Tim."[5][6][7] Sharp named the characters, selected and edited the storylines from ideas that others submitted, and supervised production of the books. Gray and others wrote the Dick and Jane stories; illustrator Eleanor B. Campbell did most of the early illustrations.[5][7]

"Dick" and "Jane" originally appeared in Elson-Gray Readers in 1930.[1][2] Before the appearance of the first Dick and Jane stories, reading primers "generally included Bible stories or fairy tales with complicated language and few pictures."[5] After the Elson-Gray series ended in 1940, the characters continued in a subsequent series of primary readers that were later revised and enlarged into newer editions.[4][7] The Dick and Jane readers were widely used in classrooms in the United States and in other English-speaking countries for nearly four decades and reached the height of their popularity in the 1950s, when 80 percent of first-grade students in the United States were learning to read though these stories.[2][5][8] The 1965 edition, the last of the Dick and Jane series, introduced the first African American family as characters in a first-grade reader.[7] Although the Dick and Jane series of primers continued to be sold until 1973 they remained in use in some classrooms throughout the 1970s. By the 1980s, however, the Dick and Jane stories had been replaced with other reading texts and gradually disappeared from schools curriculum.[2][5][8]

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Subject: RE: DNS lookup for SMTP

Would be great if someone with the knowledge of DNS and its record types could give a brief explanation. I personally have SPOT's understanding of the DNS. Cannot remember who SALLY was the younger sibling of. DICK or JANE? And whose dog was SPOT?

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Subject: DNS lookup for SMTP

Our Exchange admin changed the server IP today, and IBMi was no longer able to relay mail. My SMTP server has the hostname of the Exchange server. The Exchange admin says that IBMi is resolving the host name using the MX record in DNS instead of the A record in DNS. I have a Dick-and-Jane understanding of DNS, and I'd never heard of an MX record before today.

Can anyone shed some light on this? What record type should IBMi use? Is there a way to configure it?

TIA