Re: PLEASE NOTE: CS is an official top level domain now!!!

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From: Jerry B. Altzman
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 21:24

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In article <1990Dec19.145937.3094@cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:

> I may be in a minority here, but don't you think this is going to
>really wreak havoc? Irregardless that my subdomain is cs (what else
>would it be? compsci.widener.edu?), 

So, don't send mail to user@host.cs, but now user@host.cs.widener.edu, or
just make 'host' unique under cs.

>                                     the number of sites that have this
>as a subdomain (or other two-letter combinations) is pretty vast. Why
>wasn't the top-level domain named .CZ? Something tells me this will
>really make life exciting. At least for me.

Given that CS is the ISO country code for Czecholslovakia (I believe) it
really is appropriate.

>     Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu

DISCLAIMER: This isn't Columbia. This is me. Columbia is them.

//jbaltz
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From: jbaltz@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry B. Altzman)
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Subject: Re: PLEASE NOTE: CS is an official top level domain now!!!
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Date: 20 Dec 90 21:24:39 GMT
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