>>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