Mark's DNS idea is actually quite a dumb idea because people mistype word as much or more often than numbers. People guess words when searching, but they don't guess numbers.
A checksum or similar feature is the best way to guard against these errors. David Hillary > Do as the internet protocols do. > > The obvious solution to the problem of account numbers (obvious I guess, > if you're in the DNS business ;) is to create a system which maps human > readable strings to the account numbers, similar to the way the Domain > Name system maps hostnames to IP addresses. > > In fact when I first created my egold account the idea of creating a > "pseudo top-level-domain" to do just this came immediately. --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
