How do you think it would affect the crediblity of these charlatans if we all ran our own root servers, populated with what ever drivel we chose?
Positively. And we'd want to do it correctly, which would take work, yet it would mean nothing. And, unlike the kiddie DNS wannabes, most of us have real lives with real work to do. Has no one seen a five year old have a tantrum before? The more you pay attention to them the more the tantrum. Step back ten feet, and it's 60% funny and 40% pathetic. What leaves their credibility at its natural level, zero, is if we all hit delete instead of reply. For those of us for whom this is hard, and/or would like to improve the input s/n, procmail works wonders. : * ^From: (Tim Bass|Jim Fleming|Eugene Kashpureff|Carl Oppedahl||Karl Denninger) /dev/null randy