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000894_guido@cwi.nl _Thu Apr 15 09:27:26 1993.msg
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To: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: Project Gutenberg's Roget's Thesaurus
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Apr 1993 14:41:30 MDT."
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From: Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 09:46:52 +0200
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>Yes, and in addition, it means that choosing an appropriate URL is up to
>some client heuristics. However, it does have the merit of not
>requiring a round-trip conversation with the name service, which is
>important to us. I think the suggestion of having some kind of
>meta-URL, which could be interpreted locally, would also merit more
>thought. Some sort of macrology like imake uses (ugh :-). This would
>solve some of the problems of a static list, without necessarily
>requiring name service round trips.
Why is avoiding a name server roundtrip important to you? There's one
anyway in links of this type (the hostnames that it links to). I
wouldn't think these roundtrips were very expensive? (I never relly
notice delays around here.)
--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>