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Re: News coverage, Verisign etc.

  • From: Patrick W. Gilmore
  • Date: Wed Oct 08 15:47:44 2003 
-- On Wednesday, October 8, 2003 15:28 -0400
-- Mike Tancsa <[email protected]> supposedly wrote:


At 03:06 PM 08/10/2003, [email protected] wrote:



In these days of corporate malfeasance scandal coverage, you'd think that
Verisign's tactics would have whetted the appetite of some bright
investigative reporter for one of the major publications.

Too difficult and obscure a topic to make interesting.  Its even worse
than the S&L scandal of the 80s.  Things like ice statues pissing vodka
at private million dollar parties are easy to cover in that a picture
says it all.... There is no easy way to convey this issue to the general
public in just a few words and at the same time not put them to sleep....
"The company which manages all .com & .net domain names recently decided to redirect any and all type-os to their own servers, angering every Network Operator on the planet. They did this with absolutely no advanced warning or public comment period.

This has the makings of a war which could shake the foundations of the web and change the way users get to web pages."

Hrmm, yer right, probably not spicy enough for today's tabloids. Maybe a reporter could say something about "lining their pockets using a monopoly" or "battling titans like AOL and Microsoft", but those are not very technical arguments.

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TTFN,
patrick