Re: Warning of major NHS IT overspend

[Dave Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

Roland Perry wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> writes
> > the www is built on a disparate array of machines, managed by people of
> > varying degrees of competence and usually held in systems maintained by
> > external suppliers; DNS is simply an index into that system
> Indeed, and comparisons with a distributed database of *actual data* are 
> entirely fallacious :-(
Are you suggesting there is no actual data on the internet at all? I 
seem to find my ability to retrieve real, valuable and timely data from 
the internet is very reliable indeed, and only rarely interrupted by 
indexing problems or server unavailability.