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From: rbutterworth@orchid.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Status of Canadian domain
Message-ID: <10352@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 11:13:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 11:13:29 1987
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In article <917@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> Think about it:  If you could redisign the Canada Post addressing scheme
> right now (ignoring Postal Codes), and things like routing and post offices
> were not a problem, how would you do it?  This is how email should be addressed,
> too.

I'd simply send mail to a person's Social-Insurance-Number, which
would be issued at birth, upon receiving landed-immigrant status,
or upon incorporation of course :-).  The postal sorting machines
could look up and imprint the routing to the geographical location
automatically.  Never again would I have to send out all those
change-of-address notifications.

Of course, if we're redesigning things, we might as well change the
appearance of the SIN too.  9 digits is a little awkward to remember
for each person you might want to mail to.  If we were to go for
say three letters and four digits that would allow for over 175
million individuals in the country, and most people could refer
to each other informally by their three letter prefix.  e.g. if you
knew THX1138 well you could call him Thex.