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- From: djk@boombox.apana.org.au (David Keegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <i6xPrA9JBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 10:34:58 +1100
- References: <8lbPrA9ABh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> <1hbmn9INNgrk@daisy.ee.und.ac.za> <b8jMrA7ABh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> <Bzx014.yL@wimsey.bc.ca>
- Reply-To: David.Keegel@apana.org.au
- Organization: Private site, Melbourne, Australia.
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- In <Bzx014.yL@wimsey.bc.ca> sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:
- >In article <8lbPrA9ABh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> David.Keegel@apana.org.au writes:
- >>but some sites cannot, and this is A Good Thing. Because that way
- >>there is an incentive for people to get out of the .UUCP domain so we
- >>may not need to support it (for global routing) in five years time.
-
- >But we said that five years ago! (No smiley either.)
-
- I don't have statistics to hand about the size of the UUCP maps, or
- the .UUCP "domain" or the .US domain, but here are some stats from the
- last 300 postings I have (about one week's worth) to comp.bbs.waffle,
- where this thread originated and which probably has (one of?) the
- largest proportion of small UUCP sites around Usenet (ie: sites most
- likely to be in .UUCP).
-
- Top-level domains by posting:
- 1 at 89 com
- 9 au 50 us
- 20 ca 43 edu
- 89 com 36 uucp
- 3 de 34 org
- 43 edu 20 ca
- 2 fi 9 au
- 1 jp 6 nz
- 2 net 3 de
- 1 nl 2 fi
- 6 nz 2 net
- 34 org 2 za
- 1 uk 1 at
- 50 us 1 jp
- 36 uucp 1 nl
- 2 za 1 uk
-
- Top-level domains by poster (all posts by the same person counted once):
- 1 at 41 com
- 4 au 21 us
- 11 ca 14 org
- 41 com 13 edu
- 3 de 12 uucp
- 13 edu 11 ca
- 2 fi 4 au
- 1 jp 3 de
- 1 net 3 nz
- 1 nl 2 fi
- 3 nz 2 za
- 14 org 1 at
- 1 uk 1 jp
- 21 us 1 net
- 12 uucp 1 nl
- 2 za 1 uk
-
- >This strategy doesn't seem to be working.
-
- Do you have a better one? Should there be a strategy at all?
-
- --
- <David.Keegel@apana.org.au> <werple!tuple!boombox!djk> Tel: +61 3 593-1460
- aka: djk@boombox.apana.org.au, djk@cs.mu.oz.au. Formerly: djk@bby.com.au.
-