North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
Thus spake Barry Shein > On September 30, 1998 at 20:03 [email protected] (D'Arcy J. M. Cain) wrote: > > > > All that proves is someone has a sense of humor. I've seen plenty of > > > No I think it indicates that a bunch of clowns have taken over what > > Actually, it proves that they are running the Juniper SMTP and haven't > Well, maybe you missed the part about the website for the San > Francisco Consulate of the Kingdom of Tonga (which the US State Dept > lists as their official presence in the US) being an advertisement for > a software company. Uh, no. All I was trying to do was add a little information to the discussion. If I had known nothing about Juniper but knew something that explained why you saw an ad on the website I would have addressed that issue. I wasn't even arguing for or against your position. All I was trying to do was correct a factual error. > It was all part of a picture that the .to domain may have ceased to > serve as a country TLD for the Kingdom of Tonga. And as I tried to point out, part of the picture was false. Those messages are the standard ones that come with a particular SMTP daemon. Not that I am suggesting that there would be something wrong with having a sense of humour but in this case it was simply a more or less blind software install. > What if a country ceased to exist entirely and the domain they were > using was hijacked by some random, unrelated entity for their own > malicious purposes? Would that justify decommissioning the TLD I don't know. I'm not the one making these decisions. Are you? > (meaning, removing it from the root servers)? Ok, no need to be patronizing. I think everyone here knows what you mean. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[email protected]{druid|vex}.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 424 2871 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner.
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