Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!strath-cs!jim 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> Reply-To: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland. Lines: 23 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 ARPA: jim%cs.strath.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa, jim@cs.strath.ac.uk UUCP: jim@strath-cs.uucp, ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!jim JANET: jim@uk.ac.strath.cs "JANET domain ordering is swapped around so's there'd be some use for rev(1)!"