Re: Careful with those spamtools.....

2003-09-23 Thread Dr. Jeffrey Race
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:34:04 -0400 (EDT), Dean Anderson wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote: A few comments (interleaved) to clarify the record :) On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:14:14 -0400 (EDT), Dean Anderson wrote: Indeed. These open relay blacklist sites were always a highly

How can I get more advice for my I-D?

2003-09-23 Thread wang liang
I submitted my I-D several weeks ago,but I haven't received even a piece of advice.This I-D is about the search protocol for library.Now there are more and more databases in library,we often have to search in many databases one by one to get the precise and comprehensive recorder.It's maybe not

Re: ICANN asks VeriSign to pull redirect service (fwd)

2003-09-23 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Dean writes: In fact, the 3 most popular browsers, MSIE, Netscape, and Mozilla, which account for perhaps 90% of the browser market, do not display Page not found, but take you to MSN, and Netscape search pages, respectively. That's easy to turn off, and I do so routinely.

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Bruce Campbell
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Dean Anderson wrote in reply to Doug Royer: No. On once case your get a no such host error and never send the email in the first place and the other case gets a bounce. Not the same thing. You don't seem to understand how mail works. In both cases you get a bounce.

Re: Proposal to charge for commercial use of ISO country codes?

2003-09-23 Thread Nathaniel Borenstein
Weird things often seem to come in threes. The third IP-related insanely greedy weirdness for last week involved the Dewey Decimal system and its current corporate, er, guardians: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-dewey-decimal-

Verisign problems - redirection without RR's

2003-09-23 Thread Dan Kolis
I'm hoping for a 'change of faith' based on the $100 Million lawsuit. I can't believe anyone capable of doing this, would do this. Even the paper newspapers get this is somehow a bad development; (ie wall st journal). Proves ICANN is not interested in the integrity of the DNS to have permitted

Re: Verisign problems - redirection without RR's

2003-09-23 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Dan writes: Proves ICANN is not interested in the integrity of the DNS to have permitted this. ICANN is probably busy trying to find a way to copyright the root domain. Everyone wants his slice of the unlimited possibilities for manufactured wealth inherent in IP law.

Re: Proposal to charge for commercial use of ISO country codes?

2003-09-23 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Nathaniel writes: Weird things often seem to come in threes. The third IP-related insanely greedy weirdness for last week involved the Dewey Decimal system and its current corporate, er, guardians: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-dewey-decimal-

Re: How can I get more advice for my I-D?

2003-09-23 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 23. september 2003 17:03 +0800 wang liang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I submitted my I-D several weeks ago,but I haven't received even a piece of advice.This I-D is about the search protocol for library.Now there are more and more databases in library,we often have to search in many

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread jfcm
On 05:31 23/09/03, Larry Smith said: This is what verisign has changed... I am afraid this is not what they have changed, this is what IETF has not addressed in 20 years. Let not blame the need. Let blame the lack of solutions. jfc

Re: Verisign problems - redirection without RR's

2003-09-23 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, at 16:13 [=GMT+0200], Anthony Atkielski wrote: Dan writes: Proves ICANN is not interested in the integrity of the DNS to have permitted this. ICANN is probably busy trying to find a way to copyright the root domain. Everyone wants his slice of the unlimited

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Doug Royer
Dean Anderson wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote: You do not seem to be getting the message the MTA and MUA MAY be the same program. So NOT true. I do. Even in the same program, they are different functions. The MTA should return a bounce. You should always get a bounce, in

Verisign problems - redirection without RR's, how did it come to be?

2003-09-23 Thread Dan Kolis
Dan said earlier: Proves ICANN is not interested in the integrity of the DNS to have permitted this. Marc said is reasponse (to some extent): ICANN is probably busy trying to find a way to copyright the root domain. Everyone wants his slice of the unlimited possibilities for manufactured

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Larry Smith wrote: Have followed the thread and am aware of what has been said. Point still remains, your comment is that in neither case will the message get delivered - and my comment was not totally true. I am not referring to the MUA doing the check, I am

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Masataka Ohta wrote: You say names. But, is it whois names or domain names? I mean people useful names. Whois is a protocol for accessing the registration of names. DNS is a a protocol for distributing Records Wrong. Whois protocol is a protocol

Re: Careful with those spamtools.....

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote: No, it isn't. And it is an illegal method, because you (if you are an ISP), probably don't have permission to block non-spam mail. You may wish to take legal advice on this as you are incorrect in your belief. It is a matter of contract between

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote: The HIPPA argument doesn't fly at all. However, Verisign is also subject to the ECPA, and may not disclose the contents email, any more than any other communications providers can. No confidentiality (HIPPA or otherwise) is broken. I'm not sure if you

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Doug Royer
Dean Anderson wrote: ... HIPPA covers _medical_ information. Email addresses are not medical information. The email address in an email message is not a medical record protected by HIPPA. Third, the email address is already being disclosed to the ISP running the relay. You keep assuming

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote: HIPPA covers _medical_ information. Email addresses are not medical information. The email address in an email message is not a medical record protected by HIPPA. Third, the email address is already being disclosed to the ISP running the relay. You

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Tim Chown
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:24:42PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote: That is irrelevant to the discussion. What is relevant to this discussion? It goes on endlessly (although I'm only seeing 50% of the posts without looking in my special folder :) Tim

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dean; You say names. But, is it whois names or domain names? I mean people useful names. Whois is a protocol for accessing the registration of names. DNS is a a protocol for distributing Records Wrong. Whois protocol is a protocol for accessing the

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
Domain registry is a part of DNS system and is of no importance as long as proper names are returned for DNS queries. Good, Then we agree: Verisign is not doing anything wrong. Wildcards are part of the DNS protocol. A wildcard is a proper name .. returned for DNS queries.

RE: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Laird, James
Dean wrote: The fact still remains that DNS entries do not necessarilly imply registration, and that the DNS protocol cannot be used to make registry queries. This is getting so far from the topic it's not funny. Do any of the systems broken by Verisign try and do REGISTRY queries through DNS?

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dean; Domain registry is a part of DNS system and is of no importance as long as proper names are returned for DNS queries. Good, Then we agree: Verisign is not doing anything wrong. As long as Verisign's registry has nothing to do with the result for com/net TLD query, yes. Wildcards

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Masataka Ohta
James; Dean wrote: The fact still remains that DNS entries do not necessarilly imply registration, and that the DNS protocol cannot be used to make registry queries. This is getting so far from the topic it's not funny. Do any of the systems broken by Verisign try and do REGISTRY

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Masataka Ohta wrote: Wildcards are part of the DNS protocol. You are still trying to confuse the system and a protocol in vain. It is you who is struggling in vain. You and the rest of the reverse DNS abusers are confused. They and you, have been proven wrong on this

conclusion for ALL YOUR WILDCARDS

2003-09-23 Thread Keith Moore
folks, It should be obvious by now that there are people who stubbornly believe that Big Companies have the Inalienable Right to screw Hundreds of Millions of Individual Users if it makes them lots of money and if it doesn't happen to violate the letter of an IETF protocol. Presumably those same

RE: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
Most of this is becoming tedious and circular. Different people are posting the same canards. But I don't want people to go away with the impression that I didn't use precise language to explain things. E.g domain names in place of domains, or registry of domain names in place of registry. On

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:35:45 EDT, Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: There has been no evidence that Verisign has collected any sender addresses, nor would there be any reason for them to want to. *plonk* Sorry Dean, you've finally managed to push over the edge from possibly just dense

RE: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-23 Thread Laird, James
Dean wrote: Specifically, you insist that DNS queries, via DNS _protocol_ can be used to check if a domain exists. You are pointedly ignoring the fact that there are two planes of existence. There is the conceptual plane - the registry records, saying you have control over the name. Then there is

RE: conclusion for ALL YOUR WILDCARDS

2003-09-23 Thread Laird, James
Keith is very right. This discussion is accomplishing nothing. All it is doing is trying to write to read-only minds (nice turn of phrase Keith) and wasting time. The question is - what now? Sit and watch Verisign abuse their custodianship by feeding us advertising? --James Disclaimer: Whilst