Site Finder

Thu Oct 16 19:13:06 UTC 2003



--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:57 -0600 Michael Loftis 
<mloftis at wgops.com> wrote:

>
> I have a good one, when was the last tiema  telco asked any of us, or
> anyone for that matter, how to handle an NPA-NXX assignment?  or LERG?
>
This isn't necessarily a great analogy for this situation.  It is likely
Verisign thinks of themselves as the phone company in this case and us
as the consumers that don't know.

> NEVER.  We're not qualified to make decisions like that because we don't
> know what the effects could or would be.  Likewise VeriSign obviously
> doesn't, nor do the general populace.  As many have suggested if VeriSign
> wants to do this they can as a browser plugin or feature.
>
I don't think any phone company would ever consider routing all of the
invalid NPA-NXXs to an answering machine that plays recorded advertising
for the user.

> I for one am going to dumping all traffic bound to SiteFinder.
>
Nah... Don't do that.  Dump all traffic coming FROM SiteFinder.  That way,
it ties up their resources, while still achieving the same effect.
(Wonder if I can figure out how to get a router to forward a packet and
still generate an admin-prohibited back to the source :-)

Owen

> --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:38 AM -0700 Owen DeLong
> <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> They claim to be representing the "USER" community and to know better
>> than we what they end users want.  They think we're just a bunch of geek
>> engineers that are unwilling to embrace new ideas.  Most of all, they
>> think they can make money this way, and, they don't really care about
>> anything else. They're just trying to manipulate things so that the
>> backlash doesn't cause them too much difficulty as they inflict this on
>> the internet.
>>
>> Owen
>>
>