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.