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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: A USENet domain (was Re: Domain Charters)
Message-ID: <1990Mar1.195413.5104@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 1 Mar 90 19:54:13 GMT
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In-Reply-To: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)

In article <1990Mar1.150553.20713@maths.nott.ac.uk>, anw@maths (Dr A. N. Walker) writes:
| >Names do have an importance, but like street names in town, you don't have
| >a referendum on them.  And they do get debated, but you don't see city
| >council spending half its time on naming the streets.
| 
| 	Depends on your town!  There was much time wasted in the UK over
| the conversion of "Selous Street" to "Mandela Street".

Or the current battle in Portland, Oregon, where a street the city
council renamed from Union Street to Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
is being renamed *back* by popular election (if the pollsters are
correct).  Weird.

Just another Portland near-resident,
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