Re: gotta love those internic boyz

["melinda b. thompson" <ima () badhabit org>]

At 9:02 PM -0800 11/11/98, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 06:28:21PM -0800, Paul A Vixie wrote:
>
> > i've seen holtzman's comments about "unreliable volunteer servers" in the
> > WSJ in the past and i'm no longer willing to sit by and be slandered when
> > it was NSI's problem all along.  (tcpdump doesn't lie.)
>
> Paul, you might want to pass on this anecdote from me...
>
> A couple months ago, when I was talking to a couple people at NetSol about
> their failure to perform certain tasks that they were supposed to be
> performing, David Holtzman blew up at me. He was incensed that I'd even
> *imply* that they weren't perfect or even that they weren't doing an adequate
> job.

and then of course there is the spammage...

Sender: Owner-Admin <owner-admin () LISTS NETSOL COM>
From: List Manager Account <listmngr () LISTS NETSOL COM>
Subject:      Network Solutions' E-Commerce Update
To: ADMIN1 () LISTS NETSOL COM

Dear Customer,

You are a valued customer and we want to help increase and
protect the value of your domain name. As a free added benefit of
your domain name registration, we would like to send you our
"E-Commerce Update" from time to time.

blah blah blah...

Network Solutions - the world's leading provider of domain name
services -- together with VeriSign...

blah blah...need i go on?

nothing like gathering a captive audience and then spamming them, eh?  gee,
like  we had a choice but to do business with them??? give them our info???

sigh...uce from the mouth that feeds on us all. don't that just take the cake?

melinda

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