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Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Oct 1 18:44:05 1998

Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:17:52 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810011835.AA25124@world.std.com>; from Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 02:35:27PM -0400

On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 02:35:27PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
> No, I registered std.com as a commercial site in the commercial TLD.
> And your connection to the Kingdom of Tonga is...?

Um, Barry?  Not to put too fine a point on it, but I believe the answer
to that question is "good enough for the Kingdom of Tonga", and they're
the only people to whom it _needs_ to be a good enough connection...

or _are_ you asserting that it ought to be someone else's business?

Cheers,
-- jra
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