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Re: Namespace conflicts

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu Mar 8 18:15:11 2001

From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:01:10 -0500 (EST)
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> 
> On the other hand, if my TV let me type in "CNN" and it came back with
> the right channel, that would scale beautifully as long as nobody else
> was dumb enough to name their channel CNN.

And if there's CNN 1, CNN 2, CNN 3?
Or CNN Airport, CNN Europe, CNN Latin America.....

Of course, that's as likely to happen as there being
more than one Showtime!!


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