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From: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
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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
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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
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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")



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William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!bill

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