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Long Host Names

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From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:00
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I am pleased to announce another improvement in the services offered by
Demon Internet.

With immediate effect the restriction of 8 characters on a demon host
name (the part of the address between the '@' and 'demon.co.uk') has
been extended to 16 characters.

This means that host names like sample-site.demon.co.uk are now
possible.

Longer host names are available to anyone subscribing to the service
from now.

If you are a current subscriber to Demon and wish to change to a
longer host name, please note there will be a charge of 12.50 UKP plus
VAT for setting up the new name and that there will be no overlap
between old and new names. You will receive a new IP address.

Customers wishing to change host name, but retain both addresses for a
period will need to subscribe to two accounts for the overlap period
and a new IP address will be allocated to the new name. No mail
re-writing will be carried out by Demon.

[Mail re-writing is available at a cost of 50 UKP plus VAT per annum]

Enquiries relating to changing host name should be emailed to
sales@demon.net or telephone 0181 371 1234.

I hope this increased choice of host name will allow better use of
Demon Internet by those people who have seen the old limitation of 
8 characters as restricting their choice of meaningful name.

Malcolm Muir
Demon Internet

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Malcolm S. Muir                                Demon Internet Ltd.
Sunderland                                     322 Regents Park Road
England                                        London N3 2QQ
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From: malcolm@muir-et2.staff.demon.net (Malcolm Muir)
Subject: Long Host Names
Date: 1996/09/13
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