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On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:13:39PM +0200, Johan Danielsson wrote:
> Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> writes:
>=20
> > Are you familiar with the adage "Unix gives you enough rope"?
>=20
> But too much rope wont hang anyone.
>=20
> In practice, has this syntax ever been used the way it's intended? I
> know I'm lazy so I write 127.1 instead of 127.0.0.1, but that's about
> as useful as I can imagine it to be.

It was useful in ancient times, were we had one level of networks vs.
node-on-network numbers.

Oh, some sort of URL hiders for trojan horses depend on this.

	-is

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