Re: [IFWP] Timely decisions

1999-02-15 Thread Michael Dillon
the issues. There are no white hats on this list that I know of. -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the website for my Internet World articles - http://www.memra.com

Re: [IFWP] Is Nesson right on the objective? And, how do we reach it?

1999-02-15 Thread Michael Dillon
, is to maximize the number and diversity of TLDs. Part of achieving such diversity is to make all new gTLDs ambiguous just as the current three TLDs. Is .COM for COMmon or COMputer or what? Is .NET for NETwork or clean (net in French)? Is .ORG for ORGasm or ORGanic or what? -- Michael Dillon

Re: [IFWP] Re: ICANN & DNSO

1999-02-13 Thread Michael Dillon
nd arbitrated solution to that problem. Therefore the problem must simmer and boil until it becomes large enough to gain public attention. Once general public opinion is known, more people will have the courage to push the r4esolution of the problem in the direction that the public wants it to

Re: FIX the damm mailer

1999-02-09 Thread Michael Dillon
mes to take over control of the DNS with very little serious critiquing of their methods and their policies. -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the website for my Internet World articles - http://www.memra.com

Re: Desert Island Discs

1999-02-06 Thread Michael Dillon
tion of MP3 files there on his server). Who wants to go first? No > greatest hits CDs allowed. Never Mind the Bollocks, We're the Sex Pistols. -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the website for my Internet World articles - http://www.memra.com

Re: A little off topic

1999-02-06 Thread Michael Dillon
it be translated to Russian .CET? Note that in Russian NET spells the word "no" but in French it spells the word "clean". How long will it be until we have search engines that can use your PC's camera to look at a corporate logo on some object and take you to the

[ifwp] Re: IFWP Mailing List - Take Two

1999-01-29 Thread Michael Dillon
h off each other. The > subscription list is below. Neither of your suggestions a or b is consistent with the IFWP list tradition of ripping the flesh off each other. > Don't bother me. I'm living happily ever after. Uh-huh... -- Michael Dillon -

[ifwp] Chuck and Dave: bad boys

1999-01-28 Thread Michael Dillon
h access, I can get my email. And since datafellows.com makes it easy to download a trial version of ssh, there are very few places that I might go with no ssh capability. Let's just stick to plain text for a few more years until we have ubiquitous network computers on every corner, shall we

[ifwp] Re: What does the NIC in InterNIC mean? "Network Incom petence Consortium" (fwd)

1999-01-27 Thread Michael Dillon
common in Silicon Valley companies and I think most users of the Internic services would agree that many of the Internic's woes could have been avoided if they had a CTO rather than pushing technical issues down to lower levels of the organization chart. -- Michael Dillon

[ifwp] Re: What does the NIC in InterNIC mean? "Network Incom petence Consortium" (fwd)

1999-01-24 Thread Michael Dillon
economic or practical sense, then it will stop. -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the website for my Internet World articles - http://www.memra.com __ To receive the digest version instead, s

[ifwp] Re: You can JOIN THE CREW/for PENPALS

1999-01-24 Thread Michael Dillon
spam files. Why are there so many gullible people on this list? Does Internet politics wipe out a person's sense of humor? These are serious questions that everyone on this list needs to be asking. -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the web

[ifwp] Re: What does the NIC in InterNIC mean? "Network Incompetence Consortium" (fwd)

1999-01-23 Thread Michael Dillon
More grist for the mill -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the website for my Internet World articles - http://www.memra.com -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 18:00:25 -0800 From: JC Dill <[EMAIL PROTEC

[ifwp] You can JOIN THE CREW/for PENPALS

1999-01-22 Thread Michael Dillon
Hi there! We'd like you to join our penpals club on the Internet where you can meet new friends, discuss music, politics, whatever turns your crank. We have many regular members who can attest to how much the CREW penpals club has changed their life. ...it gave me the confidence to start m

[ifwp] Re: what ICANN is up to

1999-01-22 Thread Michael Dillon
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, William X. Walsh wrote: > The truth is out there Jeff. And it will set us all free. But it will set Jeff Williams on fire. Literally. http://www.yk.psu.edu/~jmj3/sna_bar1.htm -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the webs

[ifwp] Re: AIP

1999-01-22 Thread Michael Dillon
e mill. Maybe they'll come up with a good idea or two. -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the website for my Internet World articles - http://www.memra.com __ To receive the digest vers

[ifwp] Re: Commentary on ICC submission

1999-01-18 Thread Michael Dillon
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Richard J. Sexton wrote: > At 10:33 PM 1/17/99 -0800, Michael Dillon wrote: > >On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Christopher Ambler wrote: > > > >> And what of the ccTLDs that are not run by the governments? What of those > >> who are operated out-

[ifwp] Re: Commentary on ICC submission

1999-01-18 Thread Michael Dillon
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Christopher Ambler wrote: > Fine. I'd like to make policy for .US. I live in the US. Now what? 1. Educate yourself about current .US policy 2. Write to your Congressional rep and Senator. 3. Vote. -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: [EMAIL P

[ifwp] Re: Commentary on ICC submission

1999-01-18 Thread Michael Dillon
the country that was assigned the ISO country code in question, then it is your duty to contact that government and inform them of this fact. What the government decides to do about it or not do about it, is their business. -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

[ifwp] RE: Our Thanks and gratitude & Report

1999-01-16 Thread Michael Dillon
ff Williams is the single most pivotal individual in the entire commercialization of the Internet over the past 5 years. Oh well... I did scrape up a few details after all. Anyone else care to add some info to this thread? -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ifwp] RE: Our Thanks and gratitude & Report

1999-01-16 Thread Michael Dillon
deo shows of young naked females performing natural and unnatural sexual acts. His main advertising medium is email SPAM which he does by purchasing accounts from national ISPs using fake credit card numbers. The guy is pure scum. Paying attention to anything he says is a w

[ifwp] Re: Techo-speak, allowed by M. Sondow?

1999-01-14 Thread Michael Dillon
eedom and more choices, then there will be hell to pay. -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the website for my Internet World articles - http://www.memra.com __ To receive the digest version instead,