Re: whois?

1999-12-21 Thread John Stracke
Ray Yang wrote: I'm just wondering -- my whois command doesn't turn up contact information for domains anymore. What's going on? I get a registrar's name instead I got tired of following the redirects, so I hacked up a wrapper script (/bin/sh) to do it for me. If anybody's

Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

1999-12-21 Thread John Stracke
"Perry E. Metzger" wrote: There is a patent in the database for the use of a laser pointer to entertain a cat by having it chase the spot on the floor. I'm not making this up. Wait, I found a better one: a patent on "A Pet Exerciser and Toy Device consisting of an Attractor made of brightly

The MPLS Summit

1999-12-21 Thread Arlene Soumillac
Hello, and Happy Holidays! ICM Conferences, Inc. is hosting the following event that will be of much interest to followers of the IETF: The MPLS Summit Management Solutions for MPLS Deployment and Network Efficiency March 20-21, 2000 San Diego, CA The following members of the IETF are

Re: cats and lasers

1999-12-21 Thread Frank Solensky
Scott Bradner wrote: directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser this is exercise for cats that can see "invisible light" Which, as any cat owner can attest, covers most of them (and, yes, I know: "cat owner" is an oxymoron).

Re: cats and lasers

1999-12-21 Thread Phil Karn
directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser this is exercise for cats that can see "invisible light" I suppose that is a special case that deserves a patent Actually, no. If you read the patent, you'll see that the light remains invisible only until it hits an opaque

Re: [IETF] Re: cats and lasers

1999-12-21 Thread Reto Lichtensteiger
Mark Atwood wrote: "Perry E. Metzger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Following my reply to the "this has to be the stupidest patent I've ever heard of", several people wrote to me to say they couldn't find the "cats and laser pointers" patent. It is:

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1999-12-21 Thread Jayaraman Gopinath
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