At 1/6/02 2:52 AM, William X Walsh wrote: >Non-valuable to WHO?!?!?! > >It is certainly valuable to the registrant, in either case.
Oh, give me a break. You know perfectly well what I meant, but you haven't the faintest idea how to defend your claims that the current FCFS system is problem-free and fair... so you're trying to pretend you don't know that people have been using the term "valuable" to describe a domain name that's worth more than $6, is in demand by multiple people, and causes load problems at the registry under a first come first served system. Pretending you don't know what we're even discussing is a waste of my time and of the time of everyone else forced to read this crap. It's childish and insulting. I quit. I can't believe the amount of time I've wasted trying to defend things here that are as obvious as the sky: that you can't sell something potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for six dollars and expect that there won't be problems, that these problems will in part take the form of some people abusing the system by finding loopholes, that those people who abuse the system will gain an advantage over others who try to play by the rules, that these problems are caused by human nature and not merely by some sort of poor technical implementation, that any solution therefore must address the root cause of the problem (the fact that you're selling something worth lots of money for $6), but that it would be nice if the solution was open, transparent and competitive, rather than causing extra profit to go to the monopoly or to companies engaging in backroom deals to get an advantage. Anyone who still believes these things aren't true is welcome to go on believing that, even though it ignores human nature and the laws of supply and demand. I have work to do, so I'll let you argue amongst yourselves about the exact workings of this astonishing new reality where basic common sense doesn't apply. Perhaps you'll also figure out how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and post your results to the list. (Yes, now it's my turn to be patronizing.) Sheesh. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
