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From: hogg@db.toronto.edu (John Hogg)
Newsgroups: ut.general
Subject: Re: UofT vs. UT
Message-ID: <8810171428.AA10349@rumba.db.toronto.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 88 14:28:16 GMT
References: <1988Oct16.025032.29674@utzoo.uucp> <1988Oct16.074317.1396@lsuc.uucp> <8810170518.AA09866@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu>
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In article <8810170518.AA09866@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>
>dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman) writes:
>>Everyone knows UofT (see Subject line hereof) for what it is; why
>>not create groups uoft.general and friends, arrange for a changeover
>>and then rmgroup ut.*?
>
>well, possibly university of texas is uoft as well.  unless it isn't, having
>two names which are different but whose structure means the same is a bad idea.
>perhaps utor.general?

Having worked with somebody at U. of Texas in past, I can assure you
that they call themselves UT.  We joked about this distinction.  If
we rename ourselves uoft, we will certainly be clear of them.

Of course, we may then collide with some other institution, such as
the University of Tuktoyaktuk.  (No, *don't* bother following up on
that.)

On the other hand, how much do we care?  There aren't many foreign
postings that show up here.  I can only remember one other, about a
free cat to a good home, and that should have been restricted in
distribution anyway.  It hasn't been clear to me that the entire U.
of Texas cares about Next either, so the current case is perhaps
more a poster error than a system bug as well.
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