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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:19:00 -0600
From:      kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
To:        jdl@chrome.onramp.net
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Please spare us the Internet marketing hype.  Please.
Message-ID:  <9509122319.AA23090@emu.fsl.noaa.gov>
In-Reply-To: <199509122235.RAA12625@chrome.onramp.net> (message from Jon Loeliger on Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:35:53 -0500)

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I just finished reading http://www.webcom.com/~walsh/.  I
can hardly believe it!

I had to wait *weeks* for the NIC to approve my domain
name, where someone there who (supposedly) cared alerted
me to conflicts until we finally settled on one.

Now that they've got their web based domain name
registration system, the namespace is loaded with abuse.
They've removed an essential human element from the
registration process.

If I want to improve my company's coverage, I may as well
whip up a perl script along with /usr/share/dict/words and
register everything I can.

After seven years, I never thought I'd want to get *off*
the Internet ...

-- 
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA

So I figured I'd leave the area, because I had no ties there anyway
except for this girl I was seeing.  We had conflicting attitudes: I
really wasn't into meditating and she wasn't really into being alive.
I told her I knew when I was going to die because my birth certificate
has an expiration date. -- Steven Wright



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