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Re: Doc out of date
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Sun Mar 17 19:59:39 2002
Message-Id: <200203180055.TAA03959@bearing-an-hourglass.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU,
Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:07:53 EST."
<20020317230753.GS8045@multics.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 19:55:45 -0500
> It seems to me that all of section 4 is questionable. The rationale
> in the last paragraph for registering no longer applies.
Yeah, but Changing that requires more thought, especiall since I think
there is still a preference within I/S that people do register for
hesiod.
> Also, I think it's silly to quote all the lines from hesinfo.
> Just list the first line followed by \ldots?
If there were a few more lines I'd agree with you, but since we can't
predict the order in which the lines will appear, and there is a
sysprefix line in addition to the syscontrol lines I don't feel like
going there right now.
Jonathon
