Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!enea!liuida!obelix!pekka-r From: pekka-r@obelix.UUCP (Pekka Akselin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: What domain do private machines belong in? Message-ID: <485@obelix.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Jan-87 11:35:32 EST Article-I.D.: obelix.485 Posted: Fri Jan 2 11:35:32 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Jan-87 19:22:37 EST References: <2847@ista.UUCP> <405@dhw68k.UUCP> <979@sigma.UUCP> Reply-To: pekka-r@obelix.UUCP (Pekka Akselin) Organization: University of Linkoping, Sweden Lines: 24 In article <979@sigma.UUCP> bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) writes: >In article <405@dhw68k.UUCP> david (David H. Wolfskill) writes: >>In article <2847@ista.UUCP>, thomas (Matt Thomas) writes: >>>What domain do private machines (such as PCs) belong in? [I would like to > >The magnitude, even if you could figure it out now, will not be static. >As more of us acquire machines and the software to connect, this "domain" >will grow. (For example, my home system is not on the net yet, but I expect >to have it online within a year or so.) > >Perhaps a new domain called ".HOME" could be created, if this is important. I would rather like to call it .PRIV or .PRIVATE. This is because there are many good programmers in the homes and .HOME sounds so domestic and unproffessional (to me anyway). And I agre with William Swan that this "domain" will not be static and I have thoughts on connecting my machine to the net too. ******************************************************************************* UUCP: pekka-r@obelix.uucp | ...!seismo!enea!liuida!obelix!pekka-r ARPA: pekka-r%obelix.{ida.liu.se,UUCP}@seismo.CSS.GOV Pekka Akselin, Univ. of Linkoping, Sweden (The Land Of The Midnight Hacker :-)) *******************************************************************************