[103806] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Problems sending mail from .mumble
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Mon Apr 14 17:12:57 2008
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:07:36 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Cc: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <8BE6CB2B-7647-4167-803D-7756980E9C4A@virtualized.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
or...
domain.mx
--bill
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:35:47PM +0300, David Conrad wrote:
>
> >It's got some interesting implications if it's: domain.exe ... 'did
> >you mean to go to domain.exe or execute domain.exe or display
> >domain.pdf ?' the UI folks will have a headache with that I bet... I
> >could see a rule set (simplified) like:
> >
> >1) if -f domain.exe && -x domain.exe ; then exec(domain.exe)
> >2) if ! -f domain.exe ; then openlocation(domain.exe)
>
> Do UI folks today have trouble with:
>
> domain.com
> domain.pl
> domain.ps
> domain.sh
> etc.?
>
> Is there an application that treats a local file specifier and a host
> specifier indistinguishably? If so, how does it deal with strings
> (like those I listed above) that could potentially be executables as
> well as domain names?
>
> Thanks,
> -drc
