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Article #68Re: UNBC ... Online? Yes ... And Way Cool!
From: Richard Chycoski
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 05:17
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 05:17
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In article <smith.717488576@sfu.ca> smith@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard Smith) writes: > 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. This is more historical than anything else. UofT and Waterloo had Internet connections back before the '.ca' domain existed, so they joined the '.edu' domain, which made the most sense at the time.
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Newsgroups: bc.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!van-bc!ubc-cs!newsserver.sfu.ca!news From: richard@sfu.ca (Richard Chycoski) Subject: Re: UNBC ... Online? Yes ... And Way Cool! Message-ID: <1992Sep27.051747.28374@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca Reply-To: richard@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <smith.717488576@sfu.ca> Distribution: bc Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 05:17:47 GMT Lines: 15