Hi Matthew.

On Tuesday January 23 1996, Matthew Palmer wrote to Graham Cotterell ...

 GC> I think a statment like `roger{at}tgw.apana.org.au' is an address to
 GC> send something to a an certain person..

 MP>  au - this shows that the domain is in Australia.  I don't know what other
 MP>  countries put, but there are also ones for military and education sites.

Those are different. See below.

 MP>  org - is just something some service providers put in.  I don't know why
 MP>  it's in there.

Organisation. There are also .gov (government), .com
(commercial/companies), .edu (universities et al), and a few others which
escape me atm.

 MP>  tgw - this is the particular site name.  In this case, it's technology
 MP> gone wild.  Fairly OK place.

Ahh. I was trying to work out what that one was. :-)

Johnno

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