William and all,
To bad they (Ml.org) did not do a very good check on you. However I am
not suprised given your rather weak efforts in other areas.
William X. Walsh wrote:
> On 15-Feb-99 Kerry Miller wrote:
> >
> >
> > Antony,
> >
> > > 3. Consumer-driven e-commerce will only work in chartered TLDs if
> > > there are no unchartered TLDs. In other words, who the hell wants
> > > to be ford.automakers when you can be ford.com, especially when
> > > .automakers is one of thousands of chartered TLDs?
> >
> > I suggest that if the mandate of .com required that *cost of
> > merchanise* had to be stated onsite, much of the pressure would
> > be relieved.
>
> Sounds like you are presuming the only commercial use a domain can have is to
> be a sales site. Far from it.
>
> > For 'enforcement', there is a body of net users who I imagine would
> > be happy to tip off violators.
>
> But this requires a team to investigate such reports. I was formerly in charge
> of the Abuse Investigations team (a 100% volunteer effort) for ml.org, and I
> can tell you that investigation are not as simple and straightforward as you
> may think, and we dealt only with spam and illegal activity matters, issues you
> would think were very straightforward. Imaging trying to enforce such an
> illusive rule like what defines commercial use.....
>
>
> > As for *implementation, it seems like an ideal place to use XML.
> >
> > kerry
>
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> E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 15-Feb-99
> Time: 11:18:22
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> "We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes
> of lawyers, hungry as locusts."
> - Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, 1977
Regards,
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