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- From: davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave McCrady)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <9PmcwB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 10:35:43 MST
- References: <1992Dec25.134225.18745@wariat.org>
- Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #8, Edmonton, AB, Canada
- Lines: 38
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- sjsobol@wariat.org (Steven J. Sobol) writes:
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- - Andrew M. Dunn (amdunn@mongrel.UUCP) wrote:
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- - : True. But, unlike the US (and, to a lesser extent, Canada) they don't
- - : appear to insist on a geographical hierarchy.
- - :
- - : THAT'S what people don't like about the .US domain. Or the .CA
- - : domain.
- -
- - I haven't seen that many Canadian addresses that ARE geographical.
- -
- - : : Andy Dunn <amdunn@mongrel.UUCP> or <dunn5177@mach1.WLU.CA> :
- - ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- - is this geographical or
- - is it the address of some
- - organization???
- -
- - --
- The address of my site shows one of the reasons why. The address gets
- pretty long, especially for the dozen or so sites in my "park".
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- For example:
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- outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
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- Users of this site are designated by their full names in the form
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- charles.mcgillicuddy
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- Stick a user@ in front of that and it gets to be a bit of a
- mouthful:
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- charles.mcgillicuddy@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
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- But you know where he is!
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- Dave McCrady davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
-