Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:21:38 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Marc Ramirez <marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: this verisign wildcard silliness Message-ID: <3F6A13D2.8040101@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20030918154842.N88414@www.bluecirclesoft.com> References: <20030918184228.GA1594@perilith.com> <20030918183032.GB1058@perilith.com> <20030918184228.GA1594@perilith.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030918134237.02c19650@localhost> <20030918154842.N88414@www.bluecirclesoft.com>
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Marc Ramirez wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Brett Glass wrote: > >>At 01:06 PM 9/18/2003, Bill Moran wrote: >> >>>It makes me wish I had money lying around to hire a lawyer just to >>>piss off Verisign. >> >>This situation is ripe for a class action. >> >>Maybe one of the big law firms that loves to do these, such as >>Milberg Weiss, would take it on. > > Before you do anything rash... > > We first have to remember to "follow the money." (Thank you, Deep Throat) > > Now, yes, VeriSign may have a lot to gain from this, but let's face it: > Internet ads don't work. Now stay with me. > > Internet ads don't make people buy things, they make people annoyed. > > In this case, annoyed at what? At their typing skills, obviously. > > Now, very soon we'll have lots of annoyed internet users cursing their > stubby little jello fingers. Who would stand to profit from this? > > Maybe, just maybe, Mavis. > > As in, Mavis Beacon. > > As in, that's right! Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a.k.a Broderbund > Software! Who else, indeed? > > Notice that Broderbund has stayed mum on the issue of the wildcard record, > _unlike every one else on the internet_. > > Also, note well their affiliation between Broderbund and the _notorious_ > Bank Street College of Education at bnkst.edu -- the .edu tld seems to be > miraculously free of the wildcard nonsense. And remember that the fruit > of their collaboration, Bank Street Writer, had _no spell check_. > Coincidence? You be the judge. > > Could Broderbund be silently be staging a comeback? Are they and VeriSign > forming an ogliopo, I mean, olligiopo, I mean, oligipiolo -- crap -- > corporate Death Star? I'm afraid that's all I can say on the subject for > now. Remember people, follow the money! MY GOD! This goes deeper than I ever could have imagined! I hate to be the bearer of bad news, Marc, but you're likely to end up at the bottom of the river wearing a pair of concrete loafers after exposing this! You may have been better off keeping your suspicions to yourself. Broderbund has friends in nasty places, good luck getting a credit card ever again! -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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