begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:45:54AM -0700: > Bob La Quey wrote: > > On 5/8/07, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_sort#Postman.27s_Sort > > > > > >A zipcode is not a destination, but it does tell you how to get there. > > > > Sounds like a false dichotomy to me. A zip code certainly is > > a destination; one that tells you how to get there. > > If you want to look at it like that, you can. But that destnation would > be an *area*. A zipcode is not enough to get a letter to its > destination. It does (if you use the +4) get it down to the actual > route, though. > > It is still up to the rest of the address to specify the exact > destination.
Just like in TCP/IP. The subnet tells me the area... -- There's less location information encoded in an IP address, however. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
