Handles aren't bad - just all implementations to date.\
A system that defaults to "issue new handle if not found" is just
fundamentally broken.
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< Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 1:26 PM
< To: Florian Effenberger
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< Subject: Re: Handles
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< At 6:18 PM +0100 1/4/01, Florian Effenberger wrote:
< >Hi Neil,
< >
< >> I know that there has been alot of discussion regarding handles, but
< >> I was just wondering if someone from OpenSRS could give me a rough
< >> idea on the timelines for introducing a handle system.
< >
< >I am completely against handles, they make things more difficult ;-)
<
< Not that this is at all a democracy, but I agree with you that
< handles are
< Bad. ;-)
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