On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>      An alternative solution was proposed that we find all the bad 
>      libraries, applications, and scripts, and fix them to always use 
>      "localhost." (note trailing dot).

Could you post a pointer to this proposal?  I have not seen any such
proposal, though I have seen (and refuted) a message in which you
attributed something like that to me.

--apb (Alan Barrett)