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RE: Dereferencing Namespace URIs considered harmful
- From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- To: John Wilson <tug@wilson.co.uk>, Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>,Edwin.Fine@CommerceQuest.com
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:43:25 -0500
John Wilson wrote:
.. However this is not
> the principal reason why I think mindlessly dereferencing URIs is harmful.
> The reason it is harmful is that you may be given a URL which when
> dereferenced causes harm to others.
>
Perhaps if the URIs point to somewhere on eBay ... or perhaps we can
substitute the term 'URI' in the old statement: "Its not URIs that kill
people, its people ..."
-Jonathan