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now at least 1/2 of my incoming idm messages are to idm@hyperreal.org instead of idm@hyperreal.org. i notice this because messages that have "idm@hyperreal.org" in their header are sorted to my IN.idm folder. it's always worked until today, when i open my personal inbox with 59 messages. any reason for the .org, or what?

On Wednesday, 02-Jul-97, john/bergmayer wrote [about (idm) hyperreal.org?]:

quoted 4 lines now at least 1/2 of my incoming idm messages are to idm@hyperreal.org

>now at least 1/2 of my incoming idm messages are to idm@hyperreal.org >instead of idm@hyperreal.org. i notice this because messages that have >"idm@hyperreal.org" in their header are sorted to my IN.idm folder. it's >always worked until today, when i open my personal inbox with 59 messages.

heh.. me too :)

quoted 1 line any reason for the .org, or what?

>any reason for the .org, or what?

probably because Hyperreal isn't a commercial business.. it's a non-profit organisation. and you need to prove you're a business (usually) in order that you can get a .com domain. __ __\ \ / /_\ \ \_____/ , m7=

The other way around pretty much -- If you want a .net or .org, it takes a little work, but they send properly formatted .com requests through an automated registry program. On Wed, 2 July 1997, at 02:30:08, The Rare Guy wrote:

quoted 3 lines probably because Hyperreal isn't a commercial business.. it's a non-profit

> probably because Hyperreal isn't a commercial business.. it's a non-profit > organisation. and you need to prove you're a business (usually) in order > that you can get a .com domain.

what I'm wondering is why there is a global replace.. what about uuencoded files like this one: the following should be hyperreal. com, not .org [uuencoded attachment: foo] The reason for .org is because they're nonprofit, though.. On Tue, 1 July 1997, at 18:39:05, john/bergmayer wrote:

quoted 7 lines now at least 1/2 of my incoming idm messages are to idm@hyperreal.org

> now at least 1/2 of my incoming idm messages are to idm@hyperreal.org > instead of idm@hyperreal.org. i notice this because messages that have > "idm@hyperreal.org" in their header are sorted to my IN.idm folder. it's > always worked until today, when i open my personal inbox with 59 messages. > > any reason for the .org, or what? >

On Wed, 02 Jul 1997 02:30:08 EST4EDT, buh@clark.net wrote...

quoted 5 lines any reason for the .org, or what?

>>any reason for the .org, or what? > >probably because Hyperreal isn't a commercial business.. it's a non-profit >organisation. and you need to prove you're a business (usually) in order >that you can get a .com domain.

Well, hyperreal was not asked to prove anything. We just decided on our own that the "org" extension better fit our mission and makeup. -- Rob Williams</>fEEd</>Tempest rw@goldengate.net</>tempest@hyperreal.org

On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, rw wrote:

quoted 2 lines Well, hyperreal was not asked to prove anything. We just decided on our

> Well, hyperreal was not asked to prove anything. We just decided on our > own that the "org" extension better fit our mission and makeup.

right.. When I co-founded our web-design co. (me & some m8's), we were asked to prove it.. the web company was based in Amsterdam, and we thought a COM domain would be better than an NL one, but we had to prove it was already a business or they would not let us use com :\