At 12:11 PM 9/29/95, santa@north.pole wrote:

i dunno, i saw this and was sondering if it sounded paranoid or what.. merry xmas..

Ho ho ho, stuff it up the chimney, Santa! NSF made the award to NSI for Internet Registration Services lonnnng before SAIC bought them out. And, it is the only award we have for registration services. But now, at least, the ex-spooks will have goodies like diarrhea.com to amuse themselves with. Could you have done a more poeticly just job than that, Santa? --SG

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Ex-spooks take over Internet domain name registration

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