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.