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Article #831Re: How serious is the at->@ problem?
From: Jim Reid
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1989 12:12
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1989 12:12
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In article <1989Nov23.001545.750@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz> Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz writes: >:There's an 'at.man.ac.uk' at an astronomy department in Manchster, >:which triggered my awareness of the problem. ... Explanation of Britain's perverse use of different domain ordering ... from the rest of the world deleted. >I know the JNT won't get their act together now on the naming scheme in >the UK as they are committed to X.400 but the guys at manchester could >do themselves a favour in two ways by changing their machine name. Strictly speaking, Manchester's astronomers have registered a semi- illegal name. You are not allowed to register a domain name that is already used as a higher-level domain name. If the .at domain was registered in the British name scheme (it isn't - sigh), 'at.man.ac.uk' would be illegal. Jim
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!jim From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: How serious is the at->@ problem? Message-ID: <854@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: 24 Nov 89 12:12:26 GMT References: <3747@ccnysci.UUCP> <7867@ditmela.oz> <10116@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> <1989Nov23.001545.750@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz> Sender: news@cs.strath.ac.uk Reply-To: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland. Lines: 17