They are the great charitable citizens.
Who really cares if it's unlikely to work, it presents those behind it as having their heart in the right place.
Jim
On 8/14/06, Vic Cinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>
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> From: "Michael Purse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 1:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [DNS] aucd
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> >> Not all...no. Those that bother to inform themselves of the history,
> >> process and aims before launching into 'comment' for example.
> >> They're not....
> >
> > Regardless of the history, process, and aims, it's still a monumental
> > waste of money. I would have preferred you taken $200,000 from the
> > auDA account and bought yourself a yacht.
>
>
> I have seen numerous of these community web sites come and go. in fact I was
> going to post a url to one of my favourites, digital newtown, but the domain
> has expired.
>
> what invariably happens with these web sites, is that once the initial
> enthusiam wears off and the tedium of keeping these sites up to date starts
> to set in, they become stale and historical repositories for out of date
> information, which in turns rapidly decreases traffic to the site and a slow
> and steady death takes place.
>
> the problem here is that nobody really consulted people in the industry that
> know about these things, rather they launch into a multi million dollar bit
> of idealism that is being declared a success after a land rush that requires
> an electron microscope to observe.
>
> this is generally what happens when you dont apply commercial sensibility to
> project. the pricing mechanism ensures that there is a clear answer to the
> question of "is it worth doing?"
>
> what bothers me is that the only criteria for success is that aucd doesnt go
> broke once the auda tsunami of cash runs dry.
>
> shrug. at least it creates jobs for more pseudocrats.
>
> Vic
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