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From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Domains: Multiple names OK? (really, decommissioning of nicknames)
Message-ID: <3923@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Sep-86 15:15:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  5 15:15:24 1986
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References: <566@mecc.UUCP> <2502@cbosgd.UUCP> <3920@ut-ngp.UUCP> <1091@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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Summary: MCC is (again?) a valid nickname for MCC.COM

In article <1091@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>, henry@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch) writes:
> 
> It's rather ironic that, while the alias SEISMO (for SEISMO.CSS.GOV) 
> was decommissioned, the alias SEISMO.ARPA is still maintained as a 
> nickname... 
> 
I could think of several other words but "ironic" ....

Henry also pointed out to me (in a private message - thanks, Henry)
that MCC is a valid nickname in the latest HOSTS-table from NIC.

I checked the one on the site I mainly live on (R20.UTEXAS.EDU, a DEC-20),
and, lo-and-behold, MCC is back in the table.  (I swear, it was not there,
when the problem first popped up).  I'm trying to investigate ....

I wonder what other sites have changed, or are changing, and where such things
get announced (somewhere, that you may expect to come to the attention of
the general user population)

---Werner