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Ray Denenberg writes:
 > From: SRU (Search and Retrieve Via URL) Implementors [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
 > Behalf Of Mike Taylor
 >
 > > The first rule of software tools is that each tool should do one thing
 > > well. The same applies to protocols.  
 > 
 > Not taking a position one way or the other, I'm having trouble with
 > the analogy - tool and protocol.  A hammer, for example does one
 > thing well (does other things too but only one thing well), it
 > bangs nails. That's it's function.  But a protocol may have many
 > functions.

Not a successful one.

 > So I think you need to draw out the analogy. What is the "single"
 > thing that SRU does (should do) well?

SRU.

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