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Re: [Hesiod] Announce: Hesutils, the Hesiod utilities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave McGuire)
Thu Mar 18 12:18:11 2021
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From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
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On 3/18/21 11:31 AM, David Krikorian wrote:
> Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> I implemented a scheme by which the menu from the Chinese restaurant
> was encoded
> in Hesiod records in our nameserver, using delimited fields in the
> TXT records that
> implemented a linked list in Hesiod records.
>
>
> What was that comment about "anyone remotely sane"?
> :-)
I make no claims to sanity. ;) At the time it really seemed like it
needed to be done. I was on a bit of a roll doing all sorts of good
stuff with Hesiod.
> Seriously, though, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that one of
> my then-colleagues at MIT had done something similar with the menu for
> Mary Chung's chinese restaurant in Central Square, Cambridge (the one in
> Massachusetts). I used to serve restaurant menus to `finger`
> clients, but that had no technical... ("merit" isn't the right word...)
> cachet.
I'd be disappointed if no one had!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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