On 10/12/07, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >If you can't see that then you haven't got a sense of basic fairness, > which > >I got from the start. > > I think you are exhibiting an RIAA-like exaggerated notion of ownership. > Are you going to sue Wikipedia if they post your *unauthorized* > biography? Will you demand that people seek a waiver before uttering your > name in a public place? You really are going overboard with your sense > of entitlement. Locking things up that do not belong to you is just the > opposite of fairness.
Without going too much further off topic, legislation doesn't and can't ever enforce fairness. Clearly, we could legislate that everyone at birth be given a UUID/GUID (Universally Unique ID/Globally Unique ID) and prevent anyone but that person from using that ID in a web site. What about the "tompiwowarsucks.biz" web site? We should probably legislate that no one who doesn't believe it to be true should be allowed to own that domain name. Otherwise people will start using satire, sarcasm, and who knows what else. And, like big organizations do with email, we can say that the third Bill Smith to request WilliamSmith.com be assigned WilliamSmith-3.com, so that there is always a guarantee that every Bill Smith will have access to some form of WilliamSmith.com. Oh, and to be fair, if one of them is rich or famous or has a company named after him, that person should jump to the front of the list and get the one without any numbers in it. [OT quiz - what was the first registered domain name with a numeral as the first character in it? BTW, the RFC documenting it allowed it, but none of the early DNS implementations did.] And if parents divorce and have shared custody of the children, the same should apply to the children's domain names. It's only fair. [OT note - I remember some reasonably famous Absurdist play (Ionesco?) where every time someone said the phrase "it is only fair", all the characters on stage screamed and ran off stage.] -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
