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Re: Odd policy question.


From: Christopher McCrory <chrismcc () pricegrabber com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:49:22 -0800


On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 08:32 -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
Don't forget:
www                IN             CNAME         goatse.cx

and don't forget the terminating dot on goatse.cx.

but this did cause me to update those trapper zone files and
bump the serials.  last time the serials had been bumped since
1995.  so you had the suggestion of a decade.  mahalo.



Ouch.  So you are going to punish the rest of the world for the mistakes
of a few people (however annoying it is).

/me just cannot imagine explaining this to my mother when she mis-types
some URL.

Granted that what your (former-) customers did was not any sort of best
practice, but I think your "solution" is a little too extreme.



randy
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