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On October 1, 1998 at 11:08 [email protected] (Steven J. Sobol) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 03:22:55AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: > > > No, a typical method of judgement used where something won't likely be > > 100% one way or the other is the "preponderance of evidence". > > Agreed, and I don't think you have that, either! That's nice, but lacking any review process you're just twiddling bits in public (and so am I, not my point.) > > More importantly, in the case of a gTLD, does it serve any useful > > purpose for which it was issued, overall? > > > > Since the examples you've given don't seem to me to be entities > > organized within the Kingdom of Tonga, even if they're not porn > > sites*, what purpose is being served by keeping .to in the root > > servers? > > It's already been pointed out that there IS no one-to-one mapping of > domain names to geographical areas. What's your point? Please. There may be no one-to-one mapping, but surely there is some reason we adopted the ISO two-letter codes as TLDs. Why must these discussions always devolve into nihilism? > > * Porn per se was never the touchstone issue > > OK - I am glad we agree on this. > > -- > > Anyone who spams me will be subject to torture by Jake, > my killer attack hedgehog, and/or Lizzy and Junior, my man-eating iguanas. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | [email protected] | http://www.world.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD The World | Public Access Internet | Since 1989 *oo*
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