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Article #79Re: UNBC ... Online? Yes ... And Way Cool!
From: Tak Ariga
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 05:53
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 05:53
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> In article <1992Sep25.222336.28015@ee.ubc.ca> jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca
(John Paul Morrison) writes:
> [why is it unbc.edu?]
>
> >If UNBC is a real university, it would get .unbc.ca according to convention.
> >A college would get unbc.bc.ca
I wonder if the keepers of the .ca namespace didn't agree to unbc.ca.
It probably was unorthernbc.ca or something. :-) I recall the
au.ca vs. athabascau.ca discussion...
In article <1992Sep25.230356.4687@sfu.ca> brougham@fraser.sfu.ca
(Chris Brougham) writes:
> 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.
It may be UUCP only, but to be in the .edu namespace, you need to register.
And they are registered, at least the nameserver honours it.
--
Tak Ariga, Dictionary of Old English Project, University of Toronto, Canada
tak@doe.utoronto.ca tak@doe.toronto.edu utdoe!tak
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Newsgroups: bc.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!unixbox!telly!robohack!torag!utdoe!tak From: tak@doe.utoronto.ca (Tak Ariga) Subject: Re: UNBC ... Online? Yes ... And Way Cool! Message-ID: <1992Sep27.055332.2540@doe.utoronto.ca> Organization: Dictionary of Old English - U of Toronto References: <1992Sep25.180909.21198@unixg.ubc.ca> <1992Sep25.222336.28015@ee.ubc.ca> <1992Sep25.230356.4687@sfu.ca> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 05:53:32 GMT Lines: 23