Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: The Canadian Domain: Introduction to CA Message-ID: <1165@looking.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 12:41:42 EST Article-I.D.: looking.1165 Posted: Thu Nov 26 12:41:42 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 07:41:55 EST References: <1987Nov23.095020.13055@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1152@looking.UUCP> <1987Nov25.131317.26029@sq.uucp> Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Distribution: can Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 16 In article <1987Nov25.131317.26029@sq.uucp> msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes: >I respond that anything that keeps down the length of mail headers these days >is probably good. Especially when the header is of a mailing list message >sent to numerous people! Anyway, I'd *rather* see short and well-known >abbreviations used when the context is so standardized. Just as /bin is >better than /binary, .ON.Ca is better than .Ontario.Canada. The point of a domain scheme is that mile long headers go away. Having your offical name be Mark_Brader@Toronto.Ontario.Ca isn't very long, but it's descriptive to anybody, anywhere. There's no rule that says we can't have some aliases so that you're at TO.ON.Ca as well, is there? But the official names should be real names. Names are for human beings. Two letter abbreviations are for COBOL programs. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473