[10126] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
IIA (again?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lisa Losito)
Tue Feb 8 12:02:04 1994
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 12:01:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Lisa Losito <lisa@access.digex.net>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Sorry to leave that illuminating "Hey, who made _you_ the net.cop?"
argument, and return to IIA, but I saw this little tidbit on
dc.general...seems IIA is making even more friends wherever they go.
This is also an addition to Gordon Cook's comments about domain confusion.
Also new from IIA, I got another fax from them yesterday, think I'll edit
the mistakes and send it back, maybe it'll make me one of the "15 billion"
people that work for them. They can't decide...one paragraph (added to an
earlier version?) says you can send your credit card # at your own
option, if you'd like to use the 800 service. The next says they won't
process the account without it. It is logic or editing that has failed them?
--
Lisa Losito
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>From: peter@cs.umbc.edu (Peter Johansson)
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Subject: To help a small company avoid future snafus...
Date: 2 Feb 1994 22:54:41 -0500
Organization: Very little, if any at all.
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Summary: ... please read this message.
Keywords: Situation Normal, All Fouled Up.
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The following note was sent to me by one of the sysadmins at Insight
In Action, probably in response to a query I had intended for the
International Internet Association. I do not know if I mistyped the
domain, or someone's mail software is misconfigured.
--- begin forwarded message ---
*** Please don't confuse iia.COM and iia.ORG. ***
You are receiving this mail because you were involved recently in a mail
message which was INTENDED for "iia.org", the International Internet
Association. In each case, however, the mail was mis-addressed or mis-routed
to "iia.com", which has belonged to Insight In Action, a small consulting
company, for more than two years.
I have received DOZENS of these misdirected messages in the past few weeks.
We run UUCP on a PC over a serial line, and we do not have the staff to try
to manage a snafu of this magnitude. I am, therefore, sending this plea to
those of you who are involved.
1. Please be careful when you address e-mail to an address on "iia.org".
Double check it.
2. Please double check your mail alias lists and correct any "iia.com"s.
3. Please have your systems administrators check the global alias files and
any routing information which might be cached.
Thank you for your assistance.
- Tim Roberts
timr@iia.com (NOT iia.org)
