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Re: I've been using `eunet' distribution to mean `Europe'...

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From: Simon Poole
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:38
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Damon (dhd@exnet.co.uk) wrote:
: [I'm reposting this to n.a.p since a lot of the interested parties may
:  not get eunet.misc.]

: (See my posting in news.lists of Sunday morning.)  Is this right?

: Christophe Wolfhugel <Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr> points
: out that strictly speaking `eunet' is an organisation, not a region.

Well this is not exactly news, is it?

: So is there a distribution that really just means `Europe' without
: overtones?  Should we invent one (`eu' perhaps)?  And perhaps a
: matching hierarchy?

Why invent something new when the old solution has been working for
6-8 years without problems?

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Subject: Re: I've been using `eunet' distribution to mean `Europe'...
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