Re: how to solve TM collision

[Aveek Datta <MoNoLiTH+@CMU.EDU>]

Excerpts from internet.listserv.iahc-discuss: 11-Dec-96 how to solve TM
collision by Laurent BERNARD@artinter 
> for the same domain name, to implement a generic page saying :
> "you've reached IBM switch page.
> Here is the Institute of Bonn for Management :
> http://ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/
> Here is the International Business Machine home page : http://www.ibm.com/
> ...... "
> (so what, I could choose microsoft :-)
> (of course, it would work better with URLs like www.ibm.computer.com and

If the problem was only web pages, and granted for many companies it is,
then that solution would work. However, more companies want email, FTP, etc,
in *their short* name. Routing Email, FTP is possible, but a TREMENDOUS load
on the "switch" computer.

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