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From: evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: can.general,ont.uucp
Subject: why both d.can.? and d.can.??.?
Message-ID: <316@telly.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 88 02:45:56 GMT
Distribution: can
Organization: System telly, Brampton, Ontario
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Why does there exist a separate d.can.1 map file, even though there are
d.can.??.1 files for each province (which has subdomains)?

Is there a special reason to keep the members of the .CA domain separate
from the files listing Canadian members of .EDU, .COM, .ORG, etc.? Certainly
one wants to keep a distinction between the d.* and u.* files, but what
logical reason is there to keep .CA in a different file?

I understand that .CA is maintained in the Great White North (utai, to be
precise), while the others are registered thorugh stargate (I think). Still,
Canadians can send UUCP map entries to rutgers OR utai and both make it into
the u.can.??.? map files. Is this political? :-)

This came up because I'm writing a map-unpacking program in which the
country/province/state code in the filename is significant.

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Evan Leibovitch, SA of System Telly, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
            evan@telly.UUCP / {uunet!attcan,utzoo}!telly!evan
The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.