What if no 'phone
I mean ... not everyone has one of those new fangled ringing things, they don't give a postal address that one can write to with your quill ...
We're sure that UK councils' equal opps policies do a great deal to ensure that absolutely everyone gets a fair crack of the whip when it comes to applying for jobs or tendering for those juicy service contracts, but there are surely occasions when it is entirely justifiable to discriminate against those who do not have the …
Hopefully the new ISP will *add* support for Portsmouth Council email addresses ending in just @portsmouth.gov.uk as well as @portsmouthcc.gov.uk as is the case now.
What an idiot whoever it was who decided upon adding the cc (stands for City Council) bit to the email address domain! Totally unnecessary - we all know that portsmouth.gov.uk = Portsmouth City Council - there's no other local government in Portsmouth is there?!
> What an idiot whoever it was who decided upon adding the cc (stands for City Council) bit to
> the email address domain! Totally unnecessary - we all know that portsmouth.gov.uk =
> Portsmouth City Council - there's no other local government in Portsmouth is there?!
Well, as the idiot who decided that there should be a cc, (standing for County Council) on the end of my employers domain (back in the 1994 when these things were arraged by emails between a techie at the cc and a techie at ja.net) the logic behind it in our case was that there are more gov.uk type organisations in any area than just the council, (no nhs.uk in those days for instance, just co, edu org and gov as I remember) and with the wonders of local government reorganisations there might yet be more, so it made sense to be specific for the sake of 2 characters...
Bristol used to be bristol-city.gov.uk (hmm, surely should have been bristol-city-and-county.gov.uk!) ... unless you wanted info about schools in which case you needed the cryptic bristol-cyps.org.uk (its "children and young persons services" of course ...and for good measure its *.org.uk* and not *.gov.uk*)
Anyway they seem to have managed to introduce bristol.gov.uk ... but think that's just a portal to the underlying subdomain