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"Michael R. Gettes" <TCPMAINT@BOSTONU> |
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Wed, 24 Feb 88 09:12:33 EST |
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Message of Thu, 4 Feb 88 14:41:55 SET from <ERIC@FRECP11> |
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>>Order is obviously important - so Doe John is not a match.
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>I have to disagree. In Europe, it is very common to give your surname
>first, as in 'Thomas Eric'. This is the "official" way, ie the way a
>student would register in a university. This is one of the reasons why
>the NETSERV UDS stuff was not successful - nobody knew which form to use
>for their name, and if you searched for 'Eric Thomas', you wouldn't find
>'Thomas Eric'. Well you could search for 'Thomas' alone, but then you'd
>find 'Thomas Habernoll' and all the other 'Thomas' in the (UDS) world,
>which is not precisely what you wanted. I definitely think that '/WHOIS
>John Doe' should find 'Doe John'.
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> Eric
Why has mail from 4 feb 88 been re-introduced into the net?
did someone restore a spool backup from the wrong day?
I already received this and *many* other pieces of mail.
- Michael Gettes, Boston University
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