N. Yaakov Ziskind allegedly wrote on 02/23/2010 11:34 EST:
Larry Sheldon wrote (on Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:28:03AM -0600):
On 2/23/2010 4:39 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
Maybe politicians should just keep their nose out of things that they can't understand. Email addresses aren't phone numbers.
It occurs to me that maybe there is a reason why political conservatives get so excited about "minor, trivial" erosions of sanity; why they worry about "where this might lead"....
It's been mentioned--why not "portable" street addresses. Fire departments will just have to adapt.
If you want an example of just what would result, take a trip to Tokyo, where house numbers were assigned in the order that building permits were issued, and you need *extremely* detailed directions.
Simple: you separate 'mail' addresses from 'fire' addresses. Mail addresses are identifiers. Fire addresses are locators.