> From: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:30:19 -0800
> To: Swerve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: opensrs discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: OpenSRS Live Reseller Update [.com/.net & .name] - 13/02/03
> 
> Swerve wrote:
> 
>> The work i do falls into artistic/activistic/commercial/and Net based
>> activities.
>> 
> Do you mean that you route packets?

You know i don't mean that.  You know i know you know.
> 
> What's a "Net based activity"?
> 
> Putting together an Internet community of humans isn't the sort of "net
> based activity" that .net is here for, any more than having a Ph.D.
> makes you able to write a prescription just because you identify as a
> doctor.

Is here for?  According to who?  To you.  Not me.  Or likely many others.

> 
>> Today the word Net or the Net is used by the general public as a short form
>> of the Internet, not as a quick reference to the technical side of serving
>> information. 
>> 
>> 
> Doesn't matter.

It does matter.  The Net is here for many things, including to serve the
general public.


>Then work to create .online or something.  .net was
> created with a useful purpose which has been ignored for profit.

A useful purpose defined by a small group of network specialists.
Things change. The word Net has a much wider use today.

 

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