Re: 2 more Q's- Affiliate/Mirrors

[Mark Petersen]

Well, my personal experience as having been associated as a reseller of one of the "unethical" is all I can state, and typically eye witness testimony is taken as credible in this day and age. With that, and what has been said time and time again by others here, I'd think if you're still skeptical, perhaps you should find out for yourself the same way everyone else does. Try it! If you like it, great! If not, you move on. No harm done, right? It just seems to me that you don't seem to hold any faith in the word of those who are currently associated with Tucows, so personally, I doubt you'll believe anything that is shown you either. Don't take me wrong. I'm not trying to slam you, but what more could one need than first hand reference? Or, perhaps you just lost me somewhere. -Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 7:22 PM Subject: Re: 2 more Q's- Affiliate/Mirrors Thanks for the responses to my bringing up this subject.  Essentially what I gather is that some people feel that Tucows is a White Hat organization while others feel that Enom is a cesspool.  There are disagreements about the veracity of both sides but neither has given any facts to support either position.  So that brings me back to my original question of  What distinguishes Tucows these days from Microsoft or Verisign? Saying that they are ethical is an opinion.  Showing in what way (what would be useful for me and others) is what I'd like to hear if possible.  Because an organization started out one way does not mean it has remained true.  I would consider working with a good organization a benefit and I'd probably pay more to do so.  But everyone says they are good guys - even Microsoft has their evangelizers and I've seen people shill for large companies on newsgroups before.  "Ethical business practices" is great but in real life what are specific examples of this? Getting past the mudslinging and forgetting about enom for the moment, what is so great specifically about Tucows/OpenSRS?  I don't want to start any futher flaming.  I'd just like to know if anyone has any specific examples from present day?  Anecdotal stuff such as about spamming or not spamming is not really a specific example unless specifics are provided.