I wish it were lack of clue. This is something far more evil than lack of clue, and, the bottom line is that these guys are much better at PR than most of us. Since they can't win on engineering, because they are wrong, they are trying to make it a PR battle instead. They are having some success. We _MUST_ fight this as a PR battle. We _MUST_ write courteous, prompt, and, factual replies to these publications. The more people who do that, the better our side will look. We must point out where Verisign is lying, and, we must concede where they are not. We must clarify where their technically accurate statements lead to wildly inaccurate perceptions. Owen --On Monday, October 6, 2003 23:15 -0400 Brian Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com> wrote:
Wish someone who was good with the clue-axe would take a swing at these dolts.
We all know they are crying babies because their new method of profit was shut down.
Now, the interesting question will be, how can we prevent them from adding sitefinder again?
-------------------------- Brian Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources http://www.2mbit.com ICQ: 8077511 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kee Hinckley" <nazgul@somewhere.com> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:12 PM Subject: Verisign's public opinion play
Take your blood pressure medicine before reading this one. http://news.com.com/2010-1071-5086769.html Apparently our objections stem from our lingering resentment over the commercial use of the internet.
In case you're wondering who the author is, since neither the bio on the page or Verisign's site is helpful. Mark McLaughlin is a former lawyer who moved into Marketing and Biz Development (Caere, Gemplus, Signio and then Verisign payments). -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to
regulate
everyone else's.