Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: a thought on the 6-char limit Message-ID: <4516@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 14:34:01 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4516 Posted: Mon Oct 22 14:34:01 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Oct-84 14:34:01 EDT References: <89@azure.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 9 > I vote for longer IDs. Six is off by at least a factor of two. As I've mentioned before, there are only two good numbers: six and infinity. Setting a larger fixed limit makes no sense, because most of the people who can't deliver full flexnames can't deliver a limit larger than six either. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry