Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!genat!maccs!dan From: dan@maccs.UUCP Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: The Canadian Domain: Introduction to CA Message-ID: <876@maccs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 10:50:06 EST Article-I.D.: maccs.876 Posted: Fri Nov 27 10:50:06 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 20:36:03 EST References: <1987Nov23.095020.13055@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1152@looking.UUCP> Reply-To: dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier) Distribution: can Organization: DCSS, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Lines: 31 Keywords: finally In article <1152@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: >a Canadian domain name. But why on Earth should we use short two letter >postal service names for regional subdomains. > >Instead of ON and PQ and AB what's wrong with "Ontario" and "Quebec" and >"Alberta?" Computers are very good at arranging aliases. Let the short >two letter names be aliases, defined at whatever level you want to define >them at. Yeah sure... so my site name will be dan@css.mcmaster.hamilton.ontario.ca This would do wonders for my business card. In fact the bang style addressing is shorter than this. The point here is that with use these abbreviations will become *well known* and there will be no need to specify longer *more* specific regional names. In fact I don't even like the fact that municipality names are full length or the fact that the domains are regional at all. But since we are a *well known* educational institution I only have to specify ".mcmaster.ca" and this makes me happy again. At first I was more than a little frustrated at the seemingly lack of movement in regards to the Canadian domain scene but I see that a lot of people have contributed time and energy towards this cause and I wish to thank them for the efforts they made to bring this about. Since I did not participate in any great way, except answer a questionaire, I have no place *now* in criticizing the efforts of those that were involved. -- A.I. - is a three toed sloth! | ...!uunet!mnetor!maccs!dan -- Official scrabble players dictionary -- | dan@mcmaster.BITNET