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FC: Forget Microsoft -- now it's time to worry about

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Date:          Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:13:26 -0500
To:            politech@vorlon.mit.edu
From:          Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject:       FC: Forget Microsoft -- now it's time to worry about the post
               office
Reply-to:      declan@well.com



http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18371.html

                     The Postal Service Wants .us
                     by Declan McCullagh 

                     3:00 a.m.  10.Mar.99.PST
                     WASHINGTON -- The US Postal Service
                     wants to grab control of a key, untapped
                     portion of the Internet. 

                     America's postal workers should have the
                     exclusive right to manage the nation's .us
                     top-level domain names, an official said
                     Tuesday.

                     [...remainder snipped...]


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