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Re: AOL Non-Lameness
From: Ian Mason <nanog () ian co uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 01:11:32 +0100
On 2 Oct 2006, at 23:39, Rick Kunkel wrote:
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Joseph S D Yao wrote:On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:53:56PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:...Drew the attention of a friend at AOL to this and got a reply quoted below - this was apparently an issue at AOL's end. Thanks to AOL for quickly acting to fix this. I've been asked by my friend to post this below srs [quote] We found a problem with the way URL's were being identified and have undergone steps to correct it. In the interim, the rule change has been backed out pending further testing. Thanks to all on the list. [unquote]All, this seems seriously NON-lame to me. Of course, testing and fixing the bug before it was put out there would have been less so. But thinkof this! A large company has actually admitted that it was wrong andbacked out a problem! Isn't this what everyone always complains SHOULDbe done? ;-) ;-) ;-) Me, I'm always doing it, but that's just 'cause I have to. ;-) -- Joe Yao--------------------------------------------------------------------- --This message is not an official statement of OSIS Center policies.I had users that appeared to be getting their email blocked seemingly because in their sigs, they write their phone number that stupid IP-Address-Wannabe method, like: 206.555.1212 As an aside, is this something that's the norm in other places, likecommas instead of periods for decimals in other countries? I'd hate tosound critical if it was.
Normal practice in France; Belgium too I think.
It just seems that I know a large amount ofvery American people who have decided that phone numbers with periods in them somehow look more "hip" than dashes. I despise that. Can you tell?;) --Rick Kunkel
Current thread:
- Re: AOL Lameness, (continued)
- Re: AOL Lameness Bill Woodcock (Oct 02)
- Re: AOL Lameness Bill Woodcock (Oct 02)
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- Re: AOL Lameness Mike Lyon (Oct 02)
- Re: AOL Lameness Jeff Shultz (Oct 02)
- Re: AOL Lameness Suresh Ramasubramanian (Oct 02)
- Re: AOL Lameness trainier (Oct 02)
- Re: AOL Non-Lameness Joseph S D Yao (Oct 02)
- Re: AOL Non-Lameness Rick Kunkel (Oct 02)
- Re: AOL Non-Lameness up (Oct 02)
- Re: AOL Non-Lameness Steven Champeon (Oct 02)
- Re: AOL Non-Lameness Ian Mason (Oct 02)
- International phone numbers (was Re: AOL Non-Lameness) Etaoin Shrdlu (Oct 02)
- Re: International phone numbers (was Re: AOL Non-Lameness) Joel Jaeggli (Oct 02)
- Re: International phone numbers (was Re: AOL Non-Lameness) Rick Kunkel (Oct 02)
- Re: International phone numbers (was Re: AOL Non-Lameness) Joe Abley (Oct 03)
- Re: International phone numbers (was Re: AOL Non-Lameness) Joe Abley (Oct 03)
- Re: AOL Lameness Bill Woodcock (Oct 02)
- Re: AOL Non-Lameness Bill Woodcock (Oct 02)
- Re: AOL Non-Lameness Jim Popovitch (Oct 02)
- Re: AOL Non-Lameness Simon Waters (Oct 03)
- Re: AOL Non-Lameness Barry Shein (Oct 03)
- Re: AOL Non-Lameness Randy Bush (Oct 03)