Re: Underscores in host names

[Brad Knowles <brad () stop mail-abuse org>]

At 3:39 PM +1000 2005-05-19, Mark Andrews wrote:

>         Any tld that thinks this will ever work reliably need their
>         heads read.  There was a good reason all the unqualified
>         hosts got moved into .ARPA.  Single label hosts do not work
>         well on a global scale.

	No, they don't, but .ws and .gw are not going to be the only ones 
doing this kind of thing, and this problem won't go away unless 
something is done to expressly prohibit this kind of behaviour.

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