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Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:30:18 -0500
On Nov 5, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
Reinventing the DNS protocol in order to intercept odd stuff on the Web seems to me to be overkill and bad policy. Could someone kindly explain to me why the proxy configuration support in browsers could not be used for this, to limit the scope of damage to the web browsing side of things?I realize that the current implementations may not be quite ideal forthis, but wouldn't it be much less of a technical challenge to develop aPAC or PAC-like framework to do this in an idealized fashion, and then actually do so?
Because that would require user intervention. Even with a willing userbase, you will never get 100% adoption, and that will affect your revenues.
IOW: Because it won't make as much $$.In general, I don't think "make more money" is a bad motivation. (Hell, it's one of my main motivations.) But it has to be tempered by the "greater good", or we end up with an unworkable system, and then everyone makes less money in the long run.
IMHO, of course. -- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- RE: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again..., (continued)
- RE: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Frank Bulk - iNAME (Nov 06)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Patrick W. Gilmore (Nov 05)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Bill Stewart (Nov 05)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Andrew Sullivan (Nov 05)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Sean Donelan (Nov 04)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Steven M. Bellovin (Nov 04)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Eliot Lear (Nov 04)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Sean Donelan (Nov 04)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Eliot Lear (Nov 04)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Joe Greco (Nov 05)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Patrick W. Gilmore (Nov 05)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Florian Weimer (Nov 04)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... John Kristoff (Nov 05)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Mark Andrews (Nov 05)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Steve Atkins (Nov 06)
- Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Martin Hannigan (Nov 06)