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From: M.JSOL@DEEP-THOUGHT.MIT.EDU (Jon Solomon)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Name of NIC (was: twg, and nic not knowing its domain name..)
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Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 10:31:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 18 10:31:00 1987
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It's a neat idea, but the main problem with that is that there is already
another NIC (I'm speaking of nic.nyser.net).

--jsol

p.s. also there is a BITNIC in the BITNET namespace.