From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 17 8:31:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from excalibur.skynet.be (excalibur.skynet.be [195.238.3.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B1EE37B41B for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:31:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.39] (ip-27.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.27] (may be forged)) by excalibur.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.16) with ESMTP id fBHGVc828265; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:31:38 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3C1E17CB.5BD44972@mindspring.com> References: <20011216044542.Y86103-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <3C1DBE25.B03DC40@mindspring.com> <9vkjth$2sc2$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <3C1DEF39.DE92F450@mindspring.com> <9vl05j$f6n$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <3C1E17CB.5BD44972@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:31:20 +0100 To: Terry Lambert , Christian Weisgerber From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Top-level domains Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 8:05 AM -0800 on 2001/12/17, Terry Lambert wrote: > Christian Weisgerber wrote: >> I repeat: Please substantiate your claim that "most of Europe used >> X.500 ordering, as in 'uk.co.demon' for a very long time". > > Do you know where most of Europe keeps its historical records? > > I know that up until 1991, I had to address most of my email > using the X.500 email ordering. That could very easily be a result of the JANET gateway(s) that you probably had to use in order to get anything out onto the 'net. I know that there are some people in the Netherlands that were very, very early onto the 'net (quite probably in the very early 80's, before the DNS existed), and they should be able to shed some more light on this issue. > Obviously, I can't "prove" that, nor can I "prove" that most of > Europe used X.25 links. I think I can prove the existance of > "Minitel", though... 8^). Yeah, but we already know the Minitel wasn't part of the Internet proper, and even today just has gateways to it. Find some documentation from sites outside the UK that substantiates your position, and then we might believe you on this matter. Otherwise, it seems that everything you say on this subject will be affected by JANET-coloured glasses, and therefore will not be credible. -- Brad Knowles, H4sICIFgXzsCA2RtYS1zaWcAPVHLbsMwDDvXX0H0kkvbfxiwVw8FCmzAzqqj1F4dy7CdBfn7 Kc6wmyGRFEnvvxiWQoCvqI7RSWTcfGXQNqCUAnfIU+AT8OZ/GCNjRVlH0bKpguJkxiITZqes MxwpSucyDJzXxQEUe/ihgXqJXUXwD9ajB6NHonLmNrUSK9nacHQnH097szO74xFXqtlbT3il wMsBz5cnfCR5cEmci0Rj9u/jqBbPeES1I4PeFBXPUIT1XDSOuutFXylzrQvGyboWstCoQZyP dxX4dLx0eauFe1x9puhoi0Ao1omEJo+BZ6XLVNaVpWiKekxN0VK2VMpmAy+Bk7ZV4SO+p1L/ uErNRS/qH2iFU+iNOtbcmVt9N16lfF7tLv9FXNj8AiyNcOi1AQAA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message