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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 23:55:24 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Simon Denscombe writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> > I would suggest posting a wide announcement and directing followups to
> > groups like lugnet.robotics.events & lugnet.org -- for example:
> > Newsgroups: lugnet.announce,lugnet.robotics.events,lugnet.org,
> > lugnet.loc.at,lugnet.loc.be,lugnet.loc.ch,lugnet.loc.dk,
> > lugnet.loc.de,lugnet.loc.es,lugnet.loc.fi,lugnet.loc.fr,
> > lugnet.loc.ie,lugnet.loc.it,lugnet.loc.nl,lugnet.loc.no,
> > lugnet.loc.pt,lugnet.loc.se,lugnet.loc.uk
> > Followup-To: lugnet.robotics.events,lugnet.org
> > --Todd
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> I think this is an ideal opportunity to create a lugnet.loc.eu to help
> organise these events and also European-wide set releases, special
> offers since many companies now ship overseas in the EETA (1). EU
> officially standing for European Union although this newsgroup would
> cover the whole of Europe.
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 etc.).
> > 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)
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> 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.
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> > 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.
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> 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.
I agree again with Simon. Probably crossposting won't be needed very much. The
activity in the .eu ng would be rather limited by its own nature.
I share the idea that Europe in this case should reflect a geographical
meaning, and not a political one (European Union).
Mario
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