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Re: Problems sending mail from .mumble

  • From: bmanning
  • Date: Mon Apr 14 17:14:08 2008

	or...

	domain.mx

--bill


On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:35:47PM +0300, David Conrad wrote:
> 
> >It's got some interesting implications if it's: domain.exe ... 'did
> >you mean to go to domain.exe or execute domain.exe or display
> >domain.pdf ?' the UI folks will have a headache with that I bet... I
> >could see a rule set (simplified) like:
> >
> >1) if -f domain.exe && -x domain.exe ; then exec(domain.exe)
> >2) if ! -f domain.exe ; then openlocation(domain.exe)
> 
> Do UI folks today have trouble with:
> 
> domain.com
> domain.pl
> domain.ps
> domain.sh
> etc.?
> 
> Is there an application that treats a local file specifier and a host  
> specifier indistinguishably? If so, how does it deal with strings  
> (like those I listed above) that could potentially be executables as  
> well as domain names?
> 
> Thanks,
> -drc