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From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
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Subject: Re: How serious is the at->@ problem?
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Date: 24 Nov 89 12:12:26 GMT
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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