Re: Extended newsgroup tags; another approach

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From: Andrew Gierth (andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 04:52:34 CDT


>>>>> "greg" == greg andruk <gja@meowing.net> writes:

 greg> And yes, it's okay for groups in different administrative
 greg> domains to give their groups overlapping display names, just
 greg> like it's okay for a mail server to have multiple users named
 greg> John Smith. Once again, with feeling: names are not addresses,
 greg> and these are solved problems.

This misses the point rather convincingly.

If names are not addresses, and names are not unique, then people will
as a matter of course refer to the group by address rather than name,
and the name becomes a more or less irrelevent appendage, much like the
description field is today.

-- 
Andrew.


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