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Re: .loc.eu (was: Re: UKLUG Prototype online)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:03:23 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> I was wondering about the same thing the other day, when Mario needed to be
> able to post to a whole bunch of European countries. The bummer of it is,
> even though .eu isn't assigned an ISO country code AFAIK, the other continents
> that would need to map like that for symmetry do have clashes:
> .eu Europe (not a problem)
I think loc.eu is a special case because it's independent countries
ruling themselves but also intergrated - I don't think that arrangement
appears anywhere else. I know .eu is used as a second level domain
europarl.eu.int for example.
> If there were a .loc.e for Europe, BTW, it could contain a list of virtual
> categories (cross-references) into other categories in the .loc hierarchy
> for countries in Europe. Articles posted to .loc.de or .loc.uk, for example,
> wouldn't show up in the .loc.e tree, however, without some fancy footwork
> in the article indexer. The latter is probably inevitable someday, BTW.
loc.e sounds stupid IMO :-) I agree that loc.eu should be treated as a
seperate country as it were with threads staying in loc.eu - maybe
crossposting shouldn't be needed that much.
--
Carbon 60
ICQ # 5643170
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| (...) I agree in full. That'd be the proper place to organize major or minor events, and to inform everybody in Europe of good deals and opportunities. For example there are a few companies that sell via internet in Europe only (Toyshop, Riemann (...) (27 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I was wondering about the same thing the other day, when Mario needed to be able to post to a whole bunch of European countries. The bummer of it is, even though .eu isn't assigned an ISO country code AFAIK, the other continents that would (...) (27 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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