> On Thursday, 13 March 2003 3:45, Sean Finn wrote:
>> Call me stupid. (no really, please do)

If that will make you happy...

>> but what the heck is a .oz.au domain name?

Just a domain name.

>> Ive seen people using it to have their email sent to all over 
>> the place.

But there are rules...

>> For example, the SSLeay perl module author users 
>> eay§mincom.oz.au as their email address. WTF?

>> If im missing something thats right under my nose, please tell me.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:14:41PM +1100, Josh Rowe wrote:
> from: http://www.aunic.net/policies.html#ozau
> 
> "The .oz.au subdomain has been delegated to Robert Elz
> (kre§munnari.oz.au).
> 
> The domain was Australia's first domain and originally devised to
> register names of those entities operating within the ACSnet network,
> and continues to be used to register those entities who are visible
> within the ACSnet network domain. Registration of a name within this
> domain is only undertaken once the name is visible on the ACSnet
> network.
> 
> This domain is gradually shrinking as less sites are connected to
> ACSnet."

I guess it's shrinking, but I have no plans to discard my ACSnet link.
It still delivers me email (mostly spam, but easy to filter).

Chris