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Re: Revisiting DNS Notation

John Stracke <jstracke@centivinc.com> Thu, 08 August 2002 18:39 UTC

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Mohsen BANAN wrote:

>Now, can you please tell me what is wrong with pointing this
>out and hoping that cooperative measures can be taken towards 
>fixing it? 
>  
>
You can hope for whatever you want, but it's not gonna happen.  It's 
like writing boustrophedonically: it supposedly lets people read faster, 
but the transition costs would be prohibitive.

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