kre wrote:

>On the other hand, the yellow pages is the kind of directory that allows
>you to find information based upon a description of the information
>wanted.  Being printed on paper, it necessarily has limitations on what
>kinds of searches are possible (I think the on-line vesion is more
flexible)
>but it is at least structured so that searching for information is
possible.
>The Internet has no real directory of that form yet, and it needs one.
And in the absence of a suitable "Yellow Pages" directory (search engines
do not really fill this role) people have filled the vacumn by using the
DNS in a manner to which is was not really ever intended to be used.

Hence all the arguments abouts names, policies, etc.

Oh well.

Dougal Holmes