At 10:57 96/01/14, Israel del Rio wrote: >My proposal is to agree on expanding the first * (asterisk) in >a URL to "http://www."; the second asterisk to ".com/" >and any subsequent * to a slash. That way, >a user typing *companyname* in a URL field would actually be >sending the entire URL. This might be fine for the *.com domain but what about the *.com.au and the other 100+ countries on the web besides the USA?? Also I don't think "com" is used by all countries to indicate their commercial sector. Tony __________________________________________________________________________ Tony Barry URL:http://snazzy.anu.edu.au/People/TonyB.html Centre for Networked Information and Publishing & also Centre for Networked Access to Scholarly Information fone +61 6 249 4632 Australian National University Library phax +61 6 279 8120 Canberra A.C.T. 0200, AUSTRALIA Tony.Barry@library.anu.edu.auReceived on Sunday, 14 January 1996 01:04:02 GMT
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