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Subject: Re: determining domain type
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Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 10:59:16 EST
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In article <1907@killer.UUCP> billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes:
>One way of looking at it might be that those screwy Brits decided to futz
>things up again :-), and change the definition of "top level".. to them,
>perhaps the top level logically comes first, while to us yanks top leve
>should be at the end. Or, maybe these are just the crazed midnight ramblings
>of someone who really doesn't know what he's talking about.


well, if you think about it ...

their scheme is more usable.  For instance ... a list of domain names
will sort into the proper order ...  

Of course, if this discussion goes on too long I'll post that
RFC entitled --- On Holy Wars, or A Plea for Peace.
-- 
<---- David Herron,  Local E-Mail Hack,  david@ms.uky.edu, david@ms.uky.csnet
<----                    {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET
<---- I thought that time was this neat invention that kept everything
<---- from happening at once.  Why doesn't this work in practice?