Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!vision!chris From: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: British DNS (was Re: Paths and Precedence...) Message-ID: <1141@vision.UUCP> Date: 11 Jul 90 15:12:24 GMT References: <11034@alice.UUCP> <++J4QGC@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK Lines: 22 In article urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: >< (and then there's what the British did to the DNS...) > >Well, if they _want_ the hassles they're presumably getting (I freely admit >almost-total ignorance here) with having to parse their domain names from both >directions, they're welcome to it. ;-) Yup. That's right. What's more, the NRS (Name Registration Scheme) in the UK decided that names need not be fully qualified, ie you can address email to any of (eg) site.CO.UK, site.CO, site (!!) and the local s/w is supposed to know what to append for you :-( Thus we would not be able to address email to a top-level domain .AC or .CO... Good isn't it! Chris -- VISIONWARE LTD | UK: chris@vision.uucp JANET: chris%vision.uucp@ukc 57 Cardigan Lane | US: chris@vware.mn.org OTHER: chris@vision.co.uk LEEDS LS4 2LE | BANGNET: ...{backbone}!ukc!vision!chris England | VOICE: +44 532 788858 FAX: +44 532 304676 -------------- "VisionWare: The home of DOS/UNIX/X integration" --------------