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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: The .ca domain
Message-ID: <59@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 89 04:43:08 GMT
References: <737@lakart.UUCP> <89Nov8.024650est.2780@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <89Nov8.024650est.2780@neat.cs.toronto.edu> rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen) writes:
>fronting for them.  There are at least a dozen links between random Canadian
>sites and random U.S. sites.  The lack of a general .CA forwarder is on
>purpose, due to traffic flow considerations, because the information

What Rayan doesn't explicitly say is that connectivity of .ca type sites is
very poor right now. 

Much better links north/south than east/west. It's normal to receive
mail in vancouver from toronto that's come via uunet!

Currently there are a few internet links. One from ubc-cs to uw-beaver.
Another back east in Toronto. So it's fairly inexpensive to exchange mail
and news north/south. But expensive (read X.25 or long distance) between
here and the rest of Canada.

Sometime in the near future there is supposed to be a TCP/IP backbone from
Vancouver to Calgary to Toronto. Which will make connectivity up here a lot
better. But until then lots of stuff goes south and then across the
continent before coming north again.


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