From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 12 16:19:06 1995 Return-Path: chat-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA12314 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 16:19:06 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA12306 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 16:19:04 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA03257; Tue, 12 Sep 95 23:19:02 GMT Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA23090; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:19:00 -0600 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:19:00 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9509122319.AA23090@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: jdl@chrome.onramp.net Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509122235.RAA12625@chrome.onramp.net> (message from Jon Loeliger on Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:35:53 -0500) Subject: Re: Please spare us the Internet marketing hype. Please. Sender: chat-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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