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In article <smith.717488576@sfu.ca> smith@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard Smith) writes:
>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 
>>>
>
>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...)
>

I just thought I would point out that, for example, toronto.edu = utoronto.ca
I'm not sure which one is preferred, though.  Here, for example, is a line from
a mail header from someone I know in Toronto:

Received: from marvin.cdf.utoronto.ca (marvin.cdf.toronto.edu) by cs.sfu.ca with SMTP id AA11361

In any event, I think there are much better ways to accuse U of T of being
elitist - for example, not giving as high marks relative to other universities
so that their graduates are at a disadvantage when it comes to scholarships :-)
(you guessed it, I did my undergrad degree at U of T)

Of course, this is all getting way off topic...