Re: Re[4]: contact handles and we want to have your children

[Ross Wm. Rader]

> I imagine that like a number of OpenSRS systems, it's the way it is
because
> not a whole lot of thought went into the design.  While not rocket
science,

We actually put a lot of thought into this particular aspect of the system.
The arguement was very much one of handles v. no handles. The no handles
arguement won, but the logic was based on a fallacy that leads us up to the
present implementation. The original thinking was that handles should not be
part of the system because handles were broken. In fact however, it was only
NSI's implementation of handles that were broken and we very much needed
handles (just not broken ones).

<sigh> If we could only do it for the first time, one more time <g>

-rwr