1 X-NEWS: spcvxb comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains: 583 I Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0 13.10.90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu X 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......:-}7 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 GMT3 Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) 5 Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers 6 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   H In a dramatic twist to the "big-endian/little-endian" controversy ragingF on the European networks, the British Prime Minister Thatcher MargaretG today announced that she is standing down as leader of the Conservative L Party and government.  After weathering many storms in which She Stood AloneI against the European hordes on Exchange Rate Mechanism, European Monetary I Union, European Political Union and German Reunification, the final straw H was the insistence that the UK maintain its network addressing structureI exactly the opposite way around from everyone else.  Speaking from no 10, G Downing Street (known within the UK of course as "Street Downing, 10"), J she announced that she would quit rather than adopt the Internet standard.  J "We have our traditions and our standards", she said, "and though they areJ at variance with everyone else, I believe that it is the rest of the world that has got it wrong".   K Heseltine Michael, the man who put himself forward for the leadership would F not confirm whether he would reverse the domain ordering if he were toI succeed the Prime Minister, but it is well known that the decisive factor I in his decision to stand was the many letters he received from domainless I sources in Austria, urging him to "reverse the anti-European trend at the  top".   E The JNT, who devised the UK addressing standard (Advanced Retroactive C System for Expressing Worldwide Addresses in Yellowbook Standard or E ARSEWAYS) were not available for comment; our requests for statements 6 meeting with non-delivery messages in Czechoslovakian.  N ------------------------------------------------------------------------------K 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            --  D A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu C & no one will talk to a host that's close............(305) 255-RTFM C Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335 C is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335 