[30810] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Thu Aug 31 12:19:29 2000
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:16:08 -0400
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
Cc: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>,
Alex Kamantauskas <alexk@tugger.net>, Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20000831121608.C5435@reptiles.org>
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In-Reply-To: <39AE82E6.1C2B8E20@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>; from sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:08:06PM -0400
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On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:08:06PM -0400, Steve Sobol wrote:
> Andrew Brown wrote:
>
> > >> the mime type is made up, usually based on the file's extension, which
> > >> is, of course, passed along with the contents of the file when you
> > >> transfer it. it's no extra information in this context.
> > >>
> > >
> > > What's a file extension?
> >
> > it's the last alphanumeric token in a string delimited by dots.
>
> And it doesn't exist anywhere except Windows.
untrue.
just think how crippled make(1) would be without extensions.
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