[175325] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (shawn wilson)
Mon Oct 20 11:07:06 2014
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From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:06:38 -0400
To: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net> wrote:
> On 10/20/2014 07:20 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:58:01 -0400, shawn wilson said:
>>
>>> Bad idea. I'm betting we'd find half of gov web sites down due to not being
>>> able to reboot and issues in old coldfusion and IIS and the like (and
>>> needing to fix static links and testing etc).
>>
>> You say that like it's a bad thing....
>
> It's a dollar thing -- show me a substantial return on the investment
Indeed
>
> Adobe and Microsoft would *love* the increased revenue from updates that
> would have to be applied to all those old servers. And what about those
> sites that were made using Front Page? Talk about a nightmare. A
> costly one.
>
Oh yeah, I totally forgot about old FrontPage. I was thinking Homesite
or Dreamweaver, but idk FrontPage from ~10 years back would port very
clean into anything modern. So, if anything there needed changing,
you'd have to do a manual cleanup of that code.
