I'm so glad I checked out this list this morning.
Worth the read... lol
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From: Simon Westlake
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] mimosa webside down?
If you want to Snapchat me your lunch, I'll give you 2 likes on Facebook
On 7/22/2016 10:45 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
It doesn’t help that the Internet gods have decided that URLs / web
addresses should be treated the same as search terms. So for example, I used
to have to be very specific when telling people to log into their router (at
something like 192.168.1.1 or routerlogin.net) that they should type it into
the address bar and not a Google or Yahoo search bar (hard to search on the web
when your router isn’t set up yet). But now the browsers all want you to type
in a URL or search term and let them automagically figure out what to do.
Which means people no longer perceive a difference between typing Sonar or
sonar.software much less www.sonar.software.
I think it’s part of the dumbing down of the Internet, everyone wants to
use the Internet without even the most rudimentary understanding of how it
works. I suppose the automobile industry went through that, learning how to
sell what’s actually a quite complex machine to people who don’t know the
difference between an engine and a transmission. And now we want cars that
drive themselves. Actually that would probably be good on the Internet, if our
phones would tweet and post selfies and reply to emails without requiring our
constant attention. Hello, Simon’s phone, this is Ken’s phone, and he is
taking a nap, but here is a photo of what he ate for lunch.
From: Simon Westlake
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 9:53 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] mimosa webside down?
I get the 'simon@gmail' thing just because most of the people I talk to
would know that gmail is a .com. The others are definitely annoying. I've even
had people say things to me like 'simon@blahblah' and I've said 'ok,
si...@blahblah.com?' and they reply 'no, si...@blahblah.net'. I guess some
people just think their domains are more well known than they are. Or the ones
where they have an email like 'jfs12fitzgerald9...@someweirdlongdomain.com' and
they say it super fast like I'm going to be able to remember that.
Mostly my response right now if someone tries to give me an email address
verbally is just 'email me at simon@sonar.software and I'll reply!', which is a
lazy response, but saves going through the above scenario. Maybe I should just
get a domain like b.xyz and have my email be s...@b.xyz to help solve this for
others.
On 7/22/2016 9:24 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
I find a high percentage of people will not say the “dot” before com.
Like mailto:%E2%80%9Caf@afmugcom”. Then I have to ask whether they really are
leaving out the dot, or just not saying it, that ends up being up about 50/50.
Then there are the people who leave out the tld entirely, like
mailto:%E2%80%9Csimon@sonar%E2%80%9Dor mailto:%E2%80%9Csimon@gmail”, and you
have to ask them if they are really leaving out the “.com”, or assuming the
other person knows what they mean.
From: Simon Westlake
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 9:09 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] mimosa webside down?
The struggles we go through without having a .com domain. Everytime I
read my email address to someone over the phone, they say 'ok,
si...@sonar.software.com..'
We're just ahead of the curve Jaime!
On 7/22/2016 9:07 AM, Jaime Fink wrote:
.co please!
On Jul 22, 2016, at 7:07 AM, Justin Wilson <li...@mtin.net> wrote:
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/mimosa.com
Justin Wilson
j...@mtin.net
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http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO
xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth
http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman
Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric
On Jul 22, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Daniel Gerlach
<danielgerl...@gmail.com> wrote:
thx
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Simon Westlake
Skype: Simon_Sonar
Email: simon@sonar.software
Phone: (702) 447-1247
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Sonar Software Inc
The next generation of ISP billing and OSS
https://sonar.software
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Simon Westlake
Skype: Simon_Sonar
Email: simon@sonar.software
Phone: (702) 447-1247
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Sonar Software Inc
The next generation of ISP billing and OSS
https://sonar.software
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Simon Westlake
Skype: Simon_Sonar
Email: simon@sonar.software
Phone: (702) 447-1247
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Sonar Software Inc
The next generation of ISP billing and OSS
https://sonar.software
