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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)
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Organization: DCSS, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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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.

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