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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Subject: Re: Using "local" as a newsgroup name considered harmful
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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As quoted from <563@uthub.toronto.edu> by thomson@uthub.toronto.edu (Brian Thomson):
+---------------
| In article <2857@psuvax1.psu.edu> flee@gondor.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
| >Solution:  Make all names unique.  Either make sure they're globally
| >unique, like UUCP, or qualify the names, like ARPA:
| >	/world/na/usa/canada/waterloo/uw.general
| 		  ^^^^^^^^^^
| >Something less clumsy would be better.
| 
| Manifest Destiny, wot?
+---------------

Good point.  Umm, Felix, I hate to say this, but Canada isn't part of the U.S.
(No Reagan, No Ollie North; they've got a good thing going ;-)
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