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Article #4473Re: determining domain type
From: billw
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1987 06:17
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1987 06:17
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Me:
>> Foreign sites use the country abbreviation for the top-level domain,
>> i.e. .UK for the United Kingdom.
Jeff Forys:
>Quite correct, given that you are looking at the address from the "domain
>system" point of view (which, I'm sure you are). However, all the world
>is not the same! If you step into the United Kingdom their top level
>becomes "UK.". The NRS decided to use names like "UK.AC.Ucl.Cs" (note the
>reverse order).
But then, the original question came from someone within the US.
One way of looking at it might be that those screwy Brits decided to futz
things up again :-), and change the definition of "top level".. to them,
perhaps the top level logically comes first, while to us yanks top leve
should be at the end. Or, maybe these are just the crazed midnight ramblings
of someone who really doesn't know what he's talking about.
Yes, that seems likely.
--
Bill Wisner, HASA "A" Division ..{codas,ihnp4}!killer!billw
"It's the coarse feel of the rope that I don't like."
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!billw From: billw@killer.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: determining domain type Message-ID: <1907@killer.UUCP> Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 01:17:20 EST Article-I.D.: killer.1907 Posted: Sun Oct 25 01:17:20 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 08:27:40 EST References: <5533@sgistl.SGI.COM> <1885@killer.UUCP> <2703@sigi.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) Organization: HASA Lines: 23 Keywords: uucp mail sendmail