[24714] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: more internic fun, and an idea
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Cappuccio)
Wed Aug 4 11:10:54 1999
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 08:09:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris Cappuccio <chris@dqc.org>
To: Ehud Gavron <GAVRON@ACES.COM>
Cc: Mark Borchers <markb@infi.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <01JED0PM2CEI91WORE@ACES.COM>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Right on brother !!!!
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Ehud Gavron wrote:
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| ...
| >(2) It wasn't that long ago that two-week processing was standard for
| >a lot of domain transactions. They raised the bar on themselves by
| >improving turnaround time through automatic processing. I'm not sure
| >that they should now have to pay a price for that.
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| "Look how good you have it now" is not a valid excuse for incompetence.
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| You probably meant "You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear."
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| Ehud
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| "They" didn't raise the bar. "They" committed to meeting
| the requirements of running the registration portion of InterNIC.
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| "They" are incompetent bufoons, their staff unaware of their
| own rules, their web pages misinforming us, 'their clients',
| and their processes breaking down under stress.
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| It's not up to us to excuse them from this incompetence by
| making solipsistic references to a bygone era where 'Teengs Was Bad'
| but to demand excellence and insist on it.
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| Unfortunately, with Network Solutions, it's clear the real Solution
| is to replace them.
|
| >--
| >Mark Borchers
| >NetworkTwo Communications Group
| >"Give beer to those who are perishing..." (Proverbs 31:6)
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Corporations are not evil. That kind of anthropomorphism is inappropriate.
Corporations are too stupid to be evil, only people can be that. -jwz
