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Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Aug 13 15:39:10 2007

To: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:40:32 PDT."
             <DA225482-37BC-4163-A616-3A99BE21C462@blighty.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:09:23 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:40:32 PDT, Steve Atkins said:

> If grandma-jones orders custom stationery and doesn't
> manage to spell her name correctly, she'll end up with
> misspelled stationery. The main difference is that
> a misspelled domain name is likely to be a much cheaper
> mistake than misspelled stationery.

I once ordered replacement checks, and even though I checked them
carefully when they arrived, I *still* went through several dozen
before I noticed the '106' in my street address was printed as '160'.

And yes, I ended up swallowing the cost on that one.

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