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more on Following legal threat, VeriSign agrees to suspend Site Finder
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 10:17:08 -0400
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 09:01:10 -0400 From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>Subject: Re: [IP] Following legal threat, VeriSign agrees to suspend Site Finder
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:33:55PM -0400, Dave Farber wrote: > ' > Following legal threat, VeriSign agrees to suspend Site Finder > > By Anick Jesdanun, The Associated Press Oct 3 2003 12:39PM > The Internet's key traffic cop bowed to pressure Friday and agreed to > suspend a new online search service [...] Ah, but one press account after another parrots the Verisign party line by describing this as "a service" rather than "an attack on the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet by a greedy monopoly". No doubt the scumbags at Verisign are delighted that their language has been accepted, and no doubt they'll be back -- soon -- with another try at this. ---Rsk ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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