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djb doesn't win the case, but won't get prosecuted either. Doesn't really change the current situation any, and the law is still on the books.
VeriSign are bringing SiteFinder back despite complaints and ICANN, claiming it doesn't cause any security or stability problems. Funny, I don't recall too many people complaining about it being a security or stablity issue.
Nihongo no ki-bo-do - I didn't realise there was a QWERTY-equivalent Japanese layout. Or, I guess, a TA-TE-I-SU-KA-N layout.
SCO won't be invoicing you just yet. My cow orker Kevin still hasn't heard back from SCO on what exactly they're selling him a license for, either. Without that, their license is illegal under Irish law.
Mozilla Foundation needs cash is, I think, the subtext here. Also, Netscape Internet Explorer. It is to laugh.
And now, breakfast and more house-hunting.
VeriSign are bringing SiteFinder back despite complaints and ICANN, claiming it doesn't cause any security or stability problems. Funny, I don't recall too many people complaining about it being a security or stablity issue.
Nihongo no ki-bo-do - I didn't realise there was a QWERTY-equivalent Japanese layout. Or, I guess, a TA-TE-I-SU-KA-N layout.
SCO won't be invoicing you just yet. My cow orker Kevin still hasn't heard back from SCO on what exactly they're selling him a license for, either. Without that, their license is illegal under Irish law.
Mozilla Foundation needs cash is, I think, the subtext here. Also, Netscape Internet Explorer. It is to laugh.
And now, breakfast and more house-hunting.
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Was that intended to be sarcastic?
That's precisely what this is.
It means that misaddress mail doesn't bounce if VeriSign decides they want to read your email.
It means that indexing search engines get horfed into indexing whatever VeriSign feels like horfing them into indexing.
Both of those are directly related to the "VeriSign is monopolistic" and giving themselves infinite free advertising that they make other people pay for (and should have to pay for themselves, since the TLDs are supposed to be administered non-preferentially), but the underlying security and stability issues are huge.
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The major impact that most people seemed to be upset about was the damage to spamfiltering systems. Everything else that I read presented things like the mail redirect as "and what's more..." rather than a primary reason for disliking the system. And noone said a thing about stability. Which I notice you've mentioned as being a huge issue without saying why.
I was drawing attention to the fact that VeriSign basically appear to have said, "it's not causing this one problem you said it was causing, therefore all the other problems you mentioned must also be bogus". Not supporting them, or SiteFinder, or casting aspersions on grumpy sysadmins everywhere.
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I view the mail bounces as also being a security problem.
And I view the outright corruption issue (preferential treatment, giving free advertising to their own domain name sales over others, doing which was explicitly forbidden) as the biggest deal.
The spam filtering argument was totally bogus from the beginning. Blacklists don't work anyway, and cause more stability problems than SiteFinder (cf, John Gilmore (http://www.toad.com/gnu/)).
And I can't speak for everyone, but I (http://www.livejournal.com/users/grumpy_sysadmin/11639.html) certainly didn't state the spam filtering problem as the real problem.
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