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Re: Off Topic: New location for Austalia
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Sun, 23 May 1999 08:44:33 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <374768C2.7F7E5042@voyager.net>...
> Where's off-topic.qotd when you need it. This is a classic! The subject
> makes one think that the continent has went on a walkabout.
You'd be surprised how often it happens. NZ's continent is actually
Pacifica, as it's mostly on the Pacific plate. Bits are on the
indoaustralian plate tho.
> Jamie Obrien wrote:
> > As Subject, wqould it be possible to get a lugnet.loc.au for
> > australia, or even an lugnet.loc.au.nz for australia and new zealand.
That would be Australasia, or as it's more properly known, Anglonesia.
So lugnet.loc.aus.au or lugnet.loc.ang.au are the correct names for
Australian groups. Thankfully we have Todds alternate-universe naming
instead, featuring lugnet.loc.nz.auk and lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd
based on the US convention of state.locality.town naming I believe,
as there are lugnet.loc.us.xvd.cye.gd names in there, for
places I don't know about or recognise the abbreviations for.
If you want to be picky, Australia should be lugnet.loc.nz.west-island.syd
Moz
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| (...) Technically correct, yes. But I had this vision of OZ up and moving thousands of miles overnight. (...) We don't by convention use locality in our formal addresses, that's a UK thing. Todd introduced it here for whatever reasons in a few cases (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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