Wasted space

bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
Fri Apr 30 04:12:22 UTC 1999


> 
> 
> Maybe... but only if you can assign all 8-bit characters in domain names.
> Last time I checked, it was a significantly small subset of that which were
> truly valid.
> 
> At 04:48 PM 4/29/99 -0700, Austin Schutz wrote:
> >
> >>your point?
> >
> >	It would be possible to assign names to every atom in the universe and
> >still have some left over. Maybe not infinite but close enough :-)
> >
> >	Tex

Once, -very long ago-  there existed the domain ~^S^P.rice.edu.
Just to see if it could be done...  :)  4.8.1 was a wonderful thing.

Of course the memnonic value of same can be a bit hard to retain...

--bill




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