[9001] in SIPB bug reports
Re: various rolodex database nitpicking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel N. Weber II)
Mon Oct 6 22:55:37 2003
From: "Joel N. Weber II" <nemo@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
CC: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, yonah@MIT.EDU, kenta@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <20031006205625.GO672@multics.mit.edu> (message from John
Hawkinson on Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:56:25 -0400)
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:55:24 -0400
Joel N. Weber II <nemo@MIT.EDU> wrote on Mon, 6 Oct 2003
at 16:49:15 -0400 in <E1A6cI7-0004Lu-00@xanthine.gratuitous.org>:
> Several minor issues I noticed looking through the rolodex database:
>
> ``rolodex mycroft'' gets you the gnu office. that stopped being The
> Right Thing in about the fall of 1997.
I don't think it's implicitly wrong.
Why is it right for that to be there? I see to recall that during the
9 month period when I was in the GNU office frequently in 1998 and
1999, mycroft was never there except briefly to collect mail, and I
understand that he stopped spending time there in the fall of 1997.
I'm not aware that you've ever spent significant time in the GNU
office, so I'm wondering what evidence you have to support what you
are arguing.
> It seems odd that this lists somerville twice, but shrug:
>
> dodecahedron:~$ rolodex 617-776-2460
> 617-776-2460 Somerville
> 617-776-2460 SOMERVILLE, MA (SOVLMACEDS0) BELL ATLANTIC NE
> dodecahedron:~$
This is normal when the entry is listed in both the rolodex library
file and the NANPA database.
Is that useful behavior, though? Was listing it in the rolodex
library something that was done before the NANPA database was used?
I also notice that if I say ``rolodex 765-463-0000'' (which is the
exchange my parents in Indiana are in), I don't get anything. It
appears that the NANPA database that's there doesn't cover the entire
US.
> (One also wonders if tying that into google might be clever, or
> something. Or searching the athena finger info.)
No. Rolodex should stay local, without external network dependencies.
I don't disagree that it might be useful to have a tool which is
strictly local. But it seems like a tool that would search all of the
databases one might care about might be useful. For example, getting
the google data and the NANPA data with a single command would be kind
of neat.
