Dear vendor websites, I have a simple request for you, or morespecifically for your search people: there should be a search box whereI can plug in either a product name or a part number, and the firstthing that comes up should be that product's or part's webpage. Thisshould work even for parts that you don't normally sell separately, andit definitely should work for the product codes that you put on yourboxes. In specific, I should be able to take a

One of the things that annoys (some) sysadmins is users exchanging filesover the email system, often for good technical reasons, and over theyears a lot of people have devoted a lot of effort to trying to persuadeusers to switch to various other mechanisms.

It's not going to happen. (Well, you knew that already if you've been paying attention .)

People keep exchanging files over email because email remains the mostvisibly secure and convenient way of doing so, especially to naiveusers.

Especially in light of the difficulties that they present in returningmultiple bits of information , you might sensibly askwhy DNS blocklists opt to return information as IP addresses, instead ofsomething more flexible. A related question is why DNSBLs are queriedin such an odd way, by reversing the octets of the host address you'reinterested in.

The IP address thing is simple: everyone has has gethostbyname() orits equivalent in their standard library. Especially if you just wanta yes or no answer (and that'