On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Anonymous wrote: > Each of us manages telephone book in some way. There is no need > for central mapping of telephone numbers to persons. > > I mean *it works*. On a small scale :) > So I can set a small name-like server and me and my friends can install the > said app, and we can have fun having exclusive access to whatever > domain names or TLDs we choose. No spamming. No domain fees. > > Actually, the fact that e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] is visible > only from certain machines can sometimes be very useful. Question is what happens where there are two hosts in different 'address books' that someone uses, which good.fucker is the right one in this case? For a group of friends that are into crypto, the chances of someone having www.crypto. would be increased.. Who's the real McCoy? As for software, what about rsynching/RCS/SCCS'ing a hosts file somewhere between trusted people? Peter.