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Re: global names are a security flaw



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At 05:54 PM 12/7/97 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
>DNS names are a global namespace and they've
>mostly succeeded, modulo a few problems like ownership of the root.

Yes they succeed well -- but I still have to build an address book in Eudora 
mapping my nicknames for people to their DNS names because I can't remember 
that many long names.

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