[11190] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Quote from Kashpureff / Re: question about per. hack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Walton)
Tue Jul 22 18:36:34 1997
From: Tom Walton <tom@cqi.com>
Reply-To: "tom@cqi.com" <tom@cqi.com>
To: "'Ted Timmons'" <tedder@abcompsvc.com>,
Christopher Masto
<chris@netmonger.net>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 18:19:16 -0400
Please, please, take this bilge off of the NANOG list. This is
not the place for techno-politico-socio-net-policy discussions.
Work it out in the undergraduate lounge, and get back to us
with the answer.
Tom
--
Tom Walton
twalton@twalton.com
On Tuesday, July 22, 1997 5:27 PM, Ted Timmons
[SMTP:tedder@abcompsvc.com] wrote:
> At 05:07 PM 7/22/97 -0400, Christopher Masto wrote:
> >Now _that's_ not right at all. I think the excuse of
charging
> >a fee for
> >something to discourage its use is ridiculous. Where exactly
> >are these
> >AOLers going to get primary and secondary name service? Web
> >servers?
> >Mail forwarders?
>
> With the latest free email, web pages, etc (juno, hotmail,
> geocities), it
> wouldn't take too long for someone to come up with free DNS,
> MXing, etc..
>
> How would _you_ discourage registration? By not explaining it
> very well?
> That hasn't kept the idiots away from unix, Perl, etc...
> --
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>
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