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From: mvg@pnet51.cts.com (Mitchell Gossman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Confused
Message-ID: <747@orbit.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 00:25:08 GMT
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Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.
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I am very confused.  Can someone send to me a document explaining the nature
of these networks upon which mail/posts/etc. are flying back-and-forth?  For
example, I would like to know:

     1.  What is the format of all of these addresses that I see?  I.e.,
         what is "cts.com" in my address?
     2.  What are BITNET, USENET, ARPANET, etc.?
     3.  What is uucp?
     4.  How do smart mailers know such complex networks that must be
         in a state of constant flux?
     5.  How are unique node names maintained?
     6.  Is there a "God" of the networks who tends to all these matters?
     7.  Who pays the bill?
     8.  Millions of other questions to make my ignorance complete.

Thanks!


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Mitchell \ /  "While the definite exclusion of the Natives from the more   |
Vincent   X    remunerative jobs has not been urged upon us, the same      |
Gossman  / \   result would follow certain uses of the Wage Board.  The    |
        /   \  method would be to fix a minimum rate for an occupation or  |
       /     \ craft so high that no Native would likely be employed."     |
      /  MVG  \                                                            |
     /         \       - South African Economic and Wage Commission, 1977  |
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