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From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: What domain do private machines belong in?
Message-ID: <351@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 05:32:58 EST
Article-I.D.: stracs.351
Posted: Fri Jan  9 05:32:58 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 03:52:23 EST
References: <216@cbnap.UUCP>
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Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland.
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In article <216@cbnap.UUCP> gws@cbnap.UUCP (Gary W. Sanders (N8EMR) writes:
>OK, let see if we go to wide area domain names, I guess I will be
>
>gws@gwspc.milkyway.earth.north_america.usa.oh.central.columbus.east_side.att.
>bell_labs.2nd_floor_east
>
>That that should make things easyer? wouldnt it????

Could do if your domain ordering was the right way round! The conventional
wisdom is to have the domain scope increasing from left to right: you have
it the other way around. Mind you this would be OK in the UK where we do
strange things like this (along with driving on a different side of the road)!

[Does the density of exclamation marks in this article equal that of an
Inmac catalogue? :-)]

		Jim

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