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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: UUCP Addresses
Message-ID: <1990Feb4.005552.11753@twwells.com>
Date: 4 Feb 90 00:55:52 GMT
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In article <V^3|J|@rpi.edu> tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
: "Becoming obsolete" might be a better way of phrasing it.  There is a
: strong move to geographically-specified site names but the .UUCP
: convention is still much too prevalent to consider it obsolete.

More accurately, there is a strong push towards domain names of
some kind. The geographically specified names are just one kind
of name that is available. I am, for example, a .com site, even
though I am uucp only. What kind of name you choose depends on
your preferences.

:                                                 For all I know about
: the maps (which isn't enough; I probably shouldn't even be posting
: this), all of the sites that are in the maps have geographical names
: which the regional map coordinators determined for them.  Then again,
: this could just be my twisted view of the way I think it should be.

That does not happen. To get such a name, you have to ask for it.

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