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Re: What *are* they smoking?
From: Marc Slemko <marcs () znep com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:00:24 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Daniel Roesen wrote:
VeriSign: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? And don't try to tell us that you want to "help" users who mistype addresses. You want to make money with typos, that's all. Any "Site Finder" stuff is absurd by itself.
and their list of justifications for why what they are doing in their whitepaper is just... completely laughable. And so much for the claims their representatives made to the press the other week that it would only impact "web browsing" (as if such a thing were even possible. They clearly are not thinking very well at all of anything beyond HTTP requests made by humans sitting in front of a web browser. Oh, I'm sure their technical people are very aware of all the stuff it will break. But the company doesn't care, why should they? They know very well who they are and what they are breaking.
Current thread:
- Re: Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking?, (continued)
- Re: Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking? bmanning (Sep 16)
- Re: Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking? Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 16)
- Re: Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking? Jack Bates (Sep 16)
- RE: Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking? Eric Germann (Sep 16)
- Re: Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking? Jack Bates (Sep 17)
- Re: Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking? Jay Hennigan (Sep 16)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? alex (Sep 16)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Matthew Crocker (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Daniel Roesen (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Marc Slemko (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Christopher X. Candreva (Sep 15)
- bind patch? (Re: What *are* they smoking?) Paul Vixie (Sep 16)
- Re: public resolver (was: bind patch? (Re: What *are* they smoking?)) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 17)
- Re: public resolver Doron Shikmoni (Sep 17)
- Re: public resolver (was: bind patch? (Re: What *are* they smoking?)) Paul Vixie (Sep 17)
- Re: public resolver (was: bind patch? (Re: What *are* they smoking?)) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 18)