X-NEWS: spcvxb comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains: 583 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0 13.10.90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!njin!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!umigw!mthvax!wb8foz Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: News flash......:-} Message-ID: <1990Nov25.143918.5788@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher,,255RTFM,255rtfm) Date: 25 Nov 90 14:39:18 GMT Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers Summary: Is there a talk.domain.political group yet?-} Lines: 48 blatantly stolen from rec.humor.funny: From: T.Wade@cc.ucd.ie (Tom Wade, VMS Systems) Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: British Prime Minister quits over Domain Ordering. UPI 22-Nov-1990 In a dramatic twist to the "big-endian/little-endian" controversy raging on the European networks, the British Prime Minister Thatcher Margaret today announced that she is standing down as leader of the Conservative Party and government. After weathering many storms in which She Stood Alone against the European hordes on Exchange Rate Mechanism, European Monetary Union, European Political Union and German Reunification, the final straw was the insistence that the UK maintain its network addressing structure exactly the opposite way around from everyone else. Speaking from no 10, Downing Street (known within the UK of course as "Street Downing, 10"), she announced that she would quit rather than adopt the Internet standard. "We have our traditions and our standards", she said, "and though they are at variance with everyone else, I believe that it is the rest of the world that has got it wrong". Heseltine Michael, the man who put himself forward for the leadership would not confirm whether he would reverse the domain ordering if he were to succeed the Prime Minister, but it is well known that the decisive factor in his decision to stand was the many letters he received from domainless sources in Austria, urging him to "reverse the anti-European trend at the top". The JNT, who devised the UK addressing standard (Advanced Retroactive System for Expressing Worldwide Addresses in Yellowbook Standard or ARSEWAYS) were not available for comment; our requests for statements meeting with non-delivery messages in Czechoslovakian. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tom Wade | Internet: T.Wade@cc.ucd.ie (all domain mailers). Speaker To VAXes EuroKom | PSI-Mail: PSI%27243154000712::T.WADE University College, Belfield Dublin 4 Ireland -- A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu & no one will talk to a host that's close............(305) 255-RTFM Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335 is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335