Re: Obtaining maps of underground utilities from city governments

2003-11-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
ls of what you're trying to accomplish, I might be able to make some more specific suggestions. Miles Fidelman ** The Center for Civic Networking PO Box 600618 Miles R. Fidelman, President &

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
Just out of curiousity, I wonder how many domain registrations those of us on nanog represent? Contract sanctions from ICANN are one thing, taking all of our business elsewhere might also be effective at getting a point across (though it might also backfire - pushing Verisign to be even more agre

RE: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
da, who was also calling from his cell phone on his day off. This was part of a 6-month, ongoing problem that turned out to result from a memory leak in the nearest poletop box serving my home - it turns out that this specific box hadn't received the upgrade that fixed a problem that the industry knew about for a year. Sigh... Miles Fidelman

Re: Fw: Re: ICANN - Formal Complaint re Verisign

2003-09-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Somebody pointed out, on another list, that Verisign's move is essentially a "man in the middle" attack. Which leads to the question: are they in violation of any Federal laws - such as, say, the Patriot Act?

Re: Power outage in North East

2003-08-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Despite some news reports, Boston does not seem to be effected by the blackout, nor is MA in general. As I recall, there was some talk earlier this year about connecting the MA grid to the NY area grid - but that talk got stalled. I think people were worried about insufficient connectivity and r

OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd)

2003-06-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
lot of people on this list might have that sort of quantitative data - so... any comments? Regards, Miles Fidelman -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:15:08 -0400 From: Timothy Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Telecom Regulation & the Internet

Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...

2003-03-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Scott Weeks wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Adam Kujawski wrote: > : > : I'm going to launch a couple DAT tapes across the parking lot with a spud gun > : and see if I can achieve 923 Mb/s! > > Yer gonna need a big damn spud gun... :-) > > Contest Rules > > 1.A minimum

Re: NYT on Thing.net (fwd)

2003-01-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Paul Wouters wrote: > > This is exactly why ISP's should not be allowed to have these "we will > > disconnect you at our sole discretion" clauses. > > You can't forbid them. Private enterprises have (and should have) every > right to manage their own business as they want. Ju

Re: Iraq net shutdown temporarily

2003-01-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
somebody wrote: > > So who's up for adding the military in to spews:). I'm, sure some of the folks who dislike spews would appreciate the military's likely response to such an action. :-)

Re: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks?

2002-12-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 10 Dec 2002, Nigel Titley wrote: > > 2) Does anyone else see a HUGE problem with listing a /19 because there is > > one /32 of a spam advertised website? When did this start happening? > > Since SPEWS, with its complete lack of accountability, started being > used by respectable spam blocking

looking for benchmarks for campus and metropolitan networks

2002-08-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
much, Miles Fidelman ** The Center for Civic Networking PO Box 600618 Miles R. Fidelman, President & Newtonville, MA 02460-0006 Director, Municipal Telecommunications Strategie

RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs?

2002-08-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Nigel Clarke wrote: > Start now, do whatever it takes. > > Amongst the paperwork passed to congress, RIAA must have indicated where > it's hackers would work from. Why not start there? What they plan to do sounds incredibly illegal. Now if we could arrange for their top man

Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, JC Dill wrote: > >rigorous fight against the RIAA since they would mostly be defending > >the rights of people and organizations that they don't do business > > If one voluntarily caves in, they will almost certainly see their sales > plummet. Would you buy bandwidth from