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On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:52:56AM -0700, Roger Marquis wrote: > Most definitely not, and if this were 1985 I'd be {rf}commenting on > the inadvisability of such hostnames, and those beginning or ending > with "-", TLD names shorter than 2 or longer than 4 characters, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > spaces in hostnames, [^a-z0-9\\-\\.], and other such marginally > useful but infinitely problematic features. I understand your other concerns, there, but TLD length? To preserve assumptions in old apps? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
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