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Re: Katenames, etc.

From: st@epcc.edinburgh.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:47:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Katenames, etc.
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Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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In article <951011043826_72931987@mail02.mail.aol.com>, IEDSRI@aol.com wrote:

: By the way, Banshee, your puzzlement about that 
: sly posting from "Kate Bush@Novercia.uk" is perfectly
: understandable.  IED will admit that his frail, 
: phosphorous heart did some skipping, too, for a 
: moment -- then turned black as night in contemplation 
: of the entity responsible for the fraud...

Apart from the Message-Id: and Nntp-Posting-Host: header lines giving it
away (in the L-H digest at least), unlike the German .de top-level
domain, our .uk domain has had mandatory second-level subdomains for
several years (.ac.uk, .co.uk, .org.uk etc) and so "Novercia.uk" is
manifestly bogus.

-- 
Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre,        <s.telford@ed.ac.uk>
University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Rd, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK.(+44 131 650 5978)
-- "We do want to tour again, we will tour again" - Kate Bush, Munich, 1980. --