gotta love those internic boyz
melinda b. thompson
ima at badhabit.org
Thu Nov 12 09:32:35 UTC 1998
At 9:02 PM -0800 11/11/98, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 06:28:21PM -0800, Paul A Vixie wrote:
>
>> i've seen holtzman's comments about "unreliable volunteer servers" in the
>> WSJ in the past and i'm no longer willing to sit by and be slandered when
>> it was NSI's problem all along. (tcpdump doesn't lie.)
>
>Paul, you might want to pass on this anecdote from me...
>
>A couple months ago, when I was talking to a couple people at NetSol about
>their failure to perform certain tasks that they were supposed to be
>performing, David Holtzman blew up at me. He was incensed that I'd even
>*imply* that they weren't perfect or even that they weren't doing an adequate
>job.
and then of course there is the spammage...
Sender: Owner-Admin <owner-admin at LISTS.NETSOL.COM>
From: List Manager Account <listmngr at LISTS.NETSOL.COM>
Subject: Network Solutions' E-Commerce Update
To: ADMIN1 at LISTS.NETSOL.COM
Dear Customer,
You are a valued customer and we want to help increase and
protect the value of your domain name. As a free added benefit of
your domain name registration, we would like to send you our
"E-Commerce Update" from time to time.
blah blah blah...
Network Solutions - the world's leading provider of domain name
services -- together with VeriSign...
blah blah...need i go on?
nothing like gathering a captive audience and then spamming them, eh? gee,
like we had a choice but to do business with them??? give them our info???
sigh...uce from the mouth that feeds on us all. don't that just take the cake?
melinda
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