Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!bill From: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: What domain do private machines belong in? Message-ID: <991@sigma.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 02:03:18 EST Article-I.D.: sigma.991 Posted: Wed Jan 7 02:03:18 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Jan-87 22:41:51 EST References: <2847@ista.UUCP> <405@dhw68k.UUCP> <979@sigma.UUCP> <485@obelix.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) Organization: Summation Inc, Kirkland WA Lines: 26 In article <485@obelix.UUCP> pekka-r@obelix.UUCP (Pekka Akselin) writes: >>>>What domain do private machines (such as PCs) belong in? [...] >>The magnitude, even if you could figure it out now, will not be static. >>[...] >>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. It has been gently pointed out to me that to have such a domain implies that _somebody_ has to keep track of it. Who's going to do that?? "I think I better think it out again." -Fagin (The play "Oliver") -- William Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!bill "..When we look only for evidence of guilt and ignore all contradictory evidence, these are the elements of a witch hunt." -Paul and Shirley Eberle, _The Politics of Child Abuse_