At 12:52 AM 6/24/99 -0400, Richard Sexton wrote:
>>Joe Sims wrote:
>>> Having a policy for handling disputes over these unique assignments is
>>> essential to performing the required technical function; having a uniform
>>> policy among registrars in a registry is important to ensuring stability.
>
>Huh ?
>
>>> The Internet (including the DNS) works as well regardless of what is on
>>> particular web pages (with the possible exception of virus-laden pages,
>
>Virus laden pages ? What ??
>
>Joe, who's feeding you this garbage ? Or did you just make it up
>becasue it sounds cool ? It's sheer and utter nonsense.
>
As the story goes, one of the major sources of one of the latest viruses
was from the web pages of one of the heroic virus fighters -- name
suppressed to protect the possibly innocent. Joe Sims may make up
things, I don't know, but he didn't make that one up. (How true it is is
another question.)
Bill Lovell
