On September 30, 1998 at 12:42 karl@best.net (Karl Mueller) wrote:
I have two proposals:
1) Clearly, .COM is used for criminal and malicious activities. I propose that we remove it due to abuse.
2) Barry Shein serves no useful purpose and should also be removed.
Karl
I'm not sure what your problem is or what prompted this childish remark. I'm sorry if I presented what I believe to have been a reasoned comment with evidence and documentation etc. and somehow elicted this from you. I can't figure out why, however. If .com were used, for example, only for Slobbovian Universities, were being managed by one to the exclusion of other uses, etc, then perhaps it would be a good reason to consider decommissioning .com. And if the .to domain is not in any way being used as a TLD for the Kingdom of Tonga, but instead is being used only as a safe harbor for what appear to be malicious activities, then perhaps it should be decommissioned. Is that simple enough? One problem, as I see it, is that people claim they would prefer non-governmental regulation of the internet. Yet any suggestion that we do this is met with these sort of sneering, uncalled for, tangential, childish remarks made by individuals who obviously shouldn't be involved in regulating anything. I think it's beginning to become obvious, to me anyhow, that any claim that the internet is better regulated by those who are involved in its engineering is a total failure as a concept. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | http://www.world.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD The World | Public Access Internet | Since 1989 *oo*