[92670] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL Non-Lameness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Mason)
Mon Oct 2 20:12:13 2006
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0610021534070.27388-100000@samwise.w-link.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Ian Mason <nanog@ian.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 01:11:32 +0100
To: Rick Kunkel <kunkel@w-link.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 2 Oct 2006, at 23:39, Rick Kunkel wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:53:56PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian
>> wrote:
>> ...
>>> Drew the attention of a friend at AOL to this and got a reply quoted
>>> below - this was apparently an issue at AOL's end. Thanks to AOL for
>>> quickly acting to fix this.
>>>
>>> I've been asked by my friend to post this below
>>>
>>> srs
>>>
>>> [quote]
>>>
>>> We found a problem with the way URL's were being identified and have
>>> undergone steps to correct it. In the interim, the rule change has
>>> been backed out pending further testing. Thanks to all on the list.
>>>
>>> [unquote]
>>
>>
>> All, this seems seriously NON-lame to me. Of course, testing and
>> fixing
>> the bug before it was put out there would have been less so. But
>> think
>> of this! A large company has actually admitted that it was wrong and
>> backed out a problem! Isn't this what everyone always complains
>> SHOULD
>> be done? ;-) ;-) ;-)
>>
>> Me, I'm always doing it, but that's just 'cause I have to. ;-)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joe Yao
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> --
>> This message is not an official statement of OSIS Center policies.
>>
>
> I had users that appeared to be getting their email blocked seemingly
> because in their sigs, they write their phone number that stupid
> IP-Address-Wannabe method, like:
>
> 206.555.1212
>
> As an aside, is this something that's the norm in other places, like
> commas instead of periods for decimals in other countries? I'd
> hate to
> sound critical if it was.
Normal practice in France; Belgium too I think.
> It just seems that I know a large amount of
> very American people who have decided that phone numbers with
> periods in
> them somehow look more "hip" than dashes. I despise that. Can you
> tell?
> ;)
>
> --Rick Kunkel
>
