At 08:06 AM 1/25/1999 -0500, Rich Sena wrote:

Screw the speculators - (simply put) - they are leaches - if they did not register the domain in the first place then that company that they "watch the news for" would simply register their own frikken domain and not be gouged by them for their "finders fee".

All speculators are leeches. Stock speculators leech on the profits of companies. Land speculators leech the value of farmers and developers. I'm not saying speculators aren't leeches. What I'm saying is that you can't get rid of them without killing your own services. [by metaphor, leeches grow in warm water--poison the water, and you poison yourself] On this, I'm already proven right. NSI took out on-hold information. Who got hurt? Speculators? No. People who service customers domains? (like ISPs)? Yes. You think that by setting up an account with NSI, you can stop speculation. But you can't. I've already shown that you can't get rid of speculation with the changes proposed. I think there is general agreementt that the changes won't eliminate speculation. Further, everyone is in agreement that the real problem is NSI's services, legacy systems, etc. Eliminating speculators doesn't fix this problem. Don't be a sucker for foolish solutions to problems which can't be fixed. --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc dean@av8.com LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++