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From: mckenney@aai8.itstd.sri.com.uucp (Paul E. McKenney)
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Subject: Re: Pilot Project: Hosts Table To Be Available Over Internet
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Date: 13 Nov 89 17:08:55 GMT
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In article <1989Nov6.154134.16530@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> dennis@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Dennis Ferguson) writes:
>I can think of two reasons [for a host table] with some merit:
[ . . . two reasons omitted . . . ]

A third reason is to allow people to analyze the distributions of hostnames
and internet addresses.
				Thanx, Paul