>>Order is obviously important - so Doe John is not a match.
>
>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'.
>
>  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