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brougham@fraser.sfu.ca (Chris Brougham) writes:

>In article <1992Sep25.222336.28015@ee.ubc.ca> jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:

>>It is odd. The .edu domain was part of the original Internet waaaaay back in
>>the dark ages. Only a few big US Universities, and a coupld of Canadian
>>ones were part of the .edu domain. Some others were .mil .gov .net 
>>
>>
>>If UNBC is a real university, it would get .unbc.ca according to convention.
>>A college would get unbc.bc.ca

>Oh if it's just a UUCP node they could call it pretty well anything. When
>they get onto BCNet it'll be fixed upped. Yeh it's a real university for sure.

Don't be too sure. I am not sure what is driving it, but both Waterloo
and U of T are advertising internet addresses which include the .edu
part. It seems like posturing, to me, and an attempt to distinguish
themselves from all the 'riff raff' colleges and private groups in
.ca, and also cosy up to the big American universities. (There, that
should irritate someone...)

Check out, if you want, addresses like "library.toronto.edu" and
"steam.waterloo.edu". Just to name two that come to mind.

...r