Re: Obtaining maps of underground utilities from city governments

2003-11-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
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 Newtonville, MA 02460-0006 Director

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

RE: Finding clue at comcast.net

2003-10-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
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

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

2003-06-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
that a 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED

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 of 100

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
, Miles Fidelman ** The Center for Civic Networking PO Box 600618 Miles R. Fidelman, President Newtonville, MA 02460-0006 Director, Municipal Telecommunications Strategies Program

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 a