Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!ubc-vision!alberta!myrias!sjl 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 References: <1987Nov23.095020.13055@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Distribution: can Organization: Myrias Research, Edmonton Lines: 30 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 {ihnp4,mnetor,ubc-vision}!alberta!myrias!sjl