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Article #8364Re: A USENet domain (was Re: Domain Charters)
From: Randal Schwartz
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 19:54
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 19:54
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In article <1990Mar1.150553.20713@maths.nott.ac.uk>, anw@maths (Dr A. N. Walker) writes: | >Names do have an importance, but like street names in town, you don't have | >a referendum on them. And they do get debated, but you don't see city | >council spending half its time on naming the streets. | | Depends on your town! There was much time wasted in the UK over | the conversion of "Selous Street" to "Mandela Street". Or the current battle in Portland, Oregon, where a street the city council renamed from Union Street to Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard is being renamed *back* by popular election (if the pollsters are correct). Weird. Just another Portland near-resident, -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon, home of the California Raisins!"=/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!geac!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!oliveb!orc!mipos3!iwarp.intel.com!news From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: A USENet domain (was Re: Domain Charters) Message-ID: <1990Mar1.195413.5104@iwarp.intel.com> Date: 1 Mar 90 19:54:13 GMT References: <_.W1K12xds8@ficc.uu.net> <1990Feb23.202301.3363@everexn.uucp> <38951@apple.Apple.COM> <11012@saturn.ADS.COM> <38983@apple.Apple.COM> <103276@looking.on.ca> <15208@bfmny0.UU.NET> <103905@looking.on.ca> <1990Mar1.150553.20713@maths.nott.ac.uk> Sender: news@iwarp.intel.com Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via Intel, Beaverton, Oregon, USA Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)