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Re: Sitefinder fan - this guy needs a clue.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Oct 8 13:53:46 2003

Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:52:42 -0400
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20031008110025.097beec0@209.112.4.2>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


-- On Wednesday, October 8, 2003 11:07 -0400
-- Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> supposedly wrote:

> Amazing what different context the commentary would be placed in if ZDNET
> changed
>
> By Mark McLaughlin
> CNET News.com
> October 7, 2003, 7:10 AM PT
>
> to
>
> By Mark McLaughlin
> Senior VP, VeriSign
> October 7, 2003, 7:10 AM PT
>
> .... Because that's who he is.  I realize its marked "commentary" but it
> should be more clear that the commentary is coming from the company in
> question.

True, and I completely agree.  However, the bottom of the article says:

biography
Mark McLaughlin is senior vice president and deputy general manager of 
VeriSign's Naming and Directory Services Division, which is responsible for 
running the Internet's .com and .net system.

Let's hope we can append "not for long" if they keep this stuff up. :)

-- 
TTFN,
patrick

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