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Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 04:00:20 -0400
On September 30, 1998 at 20:03 darcy () druid net (D'Arcy J. M. Cain) wrote:
Thus spake Barry SheinOn September 30, 1998 at 14:40 jshaw () insync net (Joe Shaw) wrote: > All that proves is someone has a sense of humor. I've seen plenty of No I think it indicates that a bunch of clowns have taken over what advertises itself as the official US office of the Consulate of theActually, it proves that they are running the Juniper SMTP and haven't bothered to change the default messages. Connect to the smtp port at druid.net and it will issue the same messages.
Well, maybe you missed the part about the website for the San Francisco Consulate of the Kingdom of Tonga (which the US State Dept lists as their official presence in the US) being an advertisement for a software company. It was all part of a picture that the .to domain may have ceased to serve as a country TLD for the Kingdom of Tonga. What if a country ceased to exist entirely and the domain they were using was hijacked by some random, unrelated entity for their own malicious purposes? Would that justify decommissioning the TLD (meaning, removing it from the root servers)? -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs () world std com | 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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- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?, (continued)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Jared Mauch (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? mikem (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Rich Sena (Oct 10)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Aaron Goldblatt (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Aaron Goldblatt (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Barry Shein (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Aaron Goldblatt (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Michael Dillon (Oct 02)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Steven J. Sobol (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Barry Shein (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Oct 01)
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- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Jay R. Ashworth (Oct 01)
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- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Jay R. Ashworth (Oct 01)
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