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From: sjl@myrias.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: The Canadian Domain: Introduction to CA
Message-ID: <539@myrias.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 19:17:17 EST
Article-I.D.: myrias.539
Posted: Fri Nov 27 19:17:17 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Nov-87 04:39:14 EST
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Organization: Myrias Research, Edmonton
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I don't understand this mania with two letter abbreviations. It may be that
the two letter abbreviations for the provinces and territories that were
posted do exist in some official Canada Post memo, but for as long as I can
remember the accepted abbreviations for the names of the provinces and
territories have been:

British Columbia	BC
Alberta			Alta
Saskatchewan		Sask
Manitoba		Man
Ontario			Ont
Quebec			Que or PQ (to distinguish it from Quebec City)
New Brunswick		NB
Nova Scotia		NS
Prince Edward Island	PEI
Newfoundland		Nfld
Yukon			Yukon	  (I have also seen YT)
North West Territories	NWT

I claim that all of these abbreviations are familiar and sufficiently short.
As has been pointed out, an address created from nested domains just does
not get as long as the UUCP path names that many of us are used to seeing.
People have been perfectly happy to write these names out longhand on letters
for years, I can't imagine any reason why they are suddenly too hard for
anyone's tender fingers to type.

Stuart Lomas
Myrias Research Corporation
Edmonton, Alta
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