From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, URI_NOVOWEL autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ddb34e4ee5e28db0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-27 19:34:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Starner Subject: Re: BIND User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <20040425224751.C907A4C4136@lovelace.ada-france.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 02:34:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.72.70.249 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1083119652 12.72.70.249 (Wed, 28 Apr 2004 02:34:12 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 02:34:12 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7534 Date: 2004-04-28T02:34:12+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 18:58:32 -0400, Alexei Polkhanov wrote: > Why I cannot type "Congress Library" but I > have to go and type "dsgdsgf.dsfgdsfg.hfdhdf.gov" ? Which Congress Library? The Trades Unions Congress Library, or the Palau Congress Library? Or do you want the American Library Associations Congress on Library and Information Services? Or the World Library and Information Congress? As a human in context, I would guess you mean the Library of Congress, but my guesses aren't always right. What should "Steve Jackson" take you to? Steve Jackson Games? The personal webpage of Steve Jackson (of SJG)? The Steve Jackson who's a professor of biology at Cambridge? The Steve Jackson who's a professor of botany at the University of Wyoming? The page of the Steve Jackson that started Games Workshop? Secondly, I've see few web address like "dsgdsgf.dsfgdsfg.hfdhdf.gov". The Library of Congress is www.loc.gov. Most people who need that site more than once or twice can remember that 11 character, especially as it's www (terribly common) + loc (Library Of Congress) + gov (since it's a US government institution.) Likewise www.sjgames.com isn't terribly hard to remember either. Much easier than a 10 digit phone number. The hard ones tend to be obscure and transitory, which would be terribly hard to fit into your system. Finally, just like people record the phone numbers important to them, people can bookmark pages they want to go back to. If you want "Congress Library" to go to www.loc.gov, you can do so, and no one will complain. If you want Steve Jackson to link to your grandson's webpage, no problem.