"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Plus there was a very long, very heated thread about removing _ as a > valid name years ago. Have conditions changed since then? Frankly, > I'd like to have seen a change like this discussed more widely. There > was much debate before, and there turned out to be good reasons for > omitting the _. I just can't recall them now.
There are valid reasons for allowing it. Somebody[tm] (I'll leave it up to you to guess who) thought it was a good idea to use _ in DNS names used for automatic detection of web proxies and domain controllers, IIRC. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
