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Re: WorldNIC

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Jun 10 12:16:42 1998

Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:00:25 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980609235342.55972@shell.nacs.net>; from Steve Sobol <sjsobol@shell.nacs.net> on Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 11:53:42PM -0400

On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 11:53:42PM -0400, Steve Sobol wrote:
> .org was never meant as a domain for nonprofits; it was meant as a
> catchall to be used when your organization didn't fit into .com, .net,
> .edu or .gov.

Do you have a reference for that Steven?  It doesn't match what I
remember...

Cheers,
- jra
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