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Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue
From: "Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS" <billstewart () att com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:37:31 -0500
I don't know if Paul's system lets you log in twice, so I can't check the survey questions, but they asked approximately whether you were - a registrar - an ISP (or something like that) - a WEB end-user. The problem is that most Internet users aren't WEB end-users, they're Internet end-users, including email, web, IM, time, and maybe other protocols, and one of the big problems with Verisign's web-grabbing wildcard games is that they're only helpful for web users, but harmful or at best mostly harmless for users of other protocols, particularly email. Microsoft IE browser has a Sitefinder-like feature which really only affects the web, so it's theoretically capable of being helpful to web users without being harmful to other internet users, though in practice I never found it all that helpful either. Bill Stewart, bill.stewart () pobox com
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