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- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <y4kyVB13w165w@dogbox.acme.gen.nz>
- From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 15:34:21 +1300
- References: <lgXLrA1BBh107h@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us>
- Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)
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- tonyd@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us (Tony DeBari) writes:
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- > What would be wrong with a .PRI domain for unaffiliated, private sites?
- > Everyone has at least an MX record in the DNS, it doesn't imply a specific
- > transfer protocol like .UUCP, and there is no geographic hierarchy so a
- > site can be physically moved without having to re-register its domain name.
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- Here in New Zealand, we use GEN as the bbs/general purpose indicator.
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- Please note that almost every country ( apart from the USA ) has a tail
- to indicate their origin. ( ie: .AU, .NZ, .CA, .UK, .SE, .ZA,.....)
- By that I mean that ALL sites have the tail, including universities,
- companies and government organisations.
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- Alan Brown. (SysAdmin)
- dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz Palmerston North
- Dawghaus BBS -> +64 (6) 357-9245 New Zealand
- "A wet and windy place at the bottom of the World"
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