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From: steve@BRL.ARPA (Stephen Wolff)
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Subject: Re:  Name of NIC (was: twg, and nic not knowing its domain name..)
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Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 14:57:44 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 26 14:57:44 1987
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Indeed.  One would hope that the name of the address of "the NIC" would
contain no clue concerning which of the multiple, partially-redundant,
National Research Internet databases (the InterNic) would answer any query.