maybe the dns SO isn't the only SO with controversies !!! ken stubbs -----Original Message----- From: Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: MILIS gnM-DICK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: MILIS APPLE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; MILIS NUS-antara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 8:28 AM Subject: Free Port 157.30.0.0 - 157.53.255.255 > >Hello: > >Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold <http://www.fcx.com/> is >an environmental @@@@ , fine! (See also >http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/feature/freeport/exec.html) > >However, it is also an IP address hog! It "owns" 24 blocks of /16, >i.e. 157.30.0.0 - 157.53.255.255. Back in the early 1990-s, they >even once had 33 blocks of /16. Somehow, they have sold(?!) their >addresses to Microsoft? > >In case you are confused with those technical terms, Freeport >has got more *free* address space than the whole country >(Indonesia). Though when Freeport's neighbor -- tribal chief >O'Bahorok -- needs some /24 address space, he has to *PAY* to >APNIC (http://www.apnic.net) or other future addresses >imperialist. And, this is called fair, lah! > > > >mina'ladin wa'lfaizin, > >-- >Rahmat M.Samik-Ibrahim LOCAL Ag21 Pamulang http://come.to/agenda21 >The Internet is not based on Whatever Quarterly Papers nor Surveys. > >* APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
