From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 12:32:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5C216A4B3 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:32:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6C043FB1 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:32:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr1so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.177])2003)) with ESMTP id <0HLF0095RCX1XJ@l-daemon> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:31:49 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml9so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.7]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HLF00I51CX1ZT@l-daemon> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:31:49 -0600 (MDT) Received: from piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk (h24-87-233-42.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.233.42]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HLF0031WCWZY9@l-daemon> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:31:49 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:31:46 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20030918192224.GA69753@gdead.mooseriver.com> X-Sender: cperciva@popserver.sfu.ca To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com Message-id: <5.0.2.1.1.20030918122737.02d8be68@popserver.sfu.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <3F6A024C.5030307@potentialtech.com> <20030918183032.GB1058@perilith.com> <20030918183224.GM389@submonkey.net> <20030918184228.GA1594@perilith.com> <3F6A024C.5030307@potentialtech.com> cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: this verisign wildcard silliness X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:32:37 -0000 At 12:22 18/09/2003 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: >What was the name of the guy who, a few years ago, tried to start his own >tld? He is starting to look less like a crackpot. Ah, you see, that's the problem. There wasn't one person who tried this -- there were several dozen. And they were incompatible with each other. And they all wanted money. (And most of them weren't any better than verisign anyway.) Colin Percival