Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue

2003-10-23 Thread Owen DeLong
Not to put too fine a point on it or undermine Paul's desire for people to take the survey in order to see results, but, this isn't a small delta in perception, either The overwhelming majority (more than almost 200 times as many) people thought it was a BAD IDEA than a good one.

Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue

2003-10-22 Thread wayne
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: see http://sa.vix.com/~vixie/comnetsurv/ this is not an icann thing btw, it's just me. Welp, it has been over a week and the results seem to have pretty much stopped coming in. It doesn't look like very many people think the

Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue

2003-10-14 Thread Roland Perry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes When the signal is placed on the wire, it is very analog. the digital signal is modulated onto the wire and demodulated off of it and the box that connects to the phone line at each end is properly and fairly commonly called a

Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue

2003-10-13 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: see http://sa.vix.com/~vixie/comnetsurv/ this is not an icann thing btw, it's just me. An incentive to take the survey: If you fill it out, it'll tell you the aggregated results so far, which are, lemme tell you, pretty surprising. Who knew

Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue

2003-10-13 Thread Paul Vixie
see http://sa.vix.com/~vixie/comnetsurv/ An incentive to take the survey: If you fill it out, it'll tell you the aggregated results so far, which are, lemme tell you, pretty surprising. Who knew that NANOG subscribers would anonymously admit they were clueless? :-) that's just bad

Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue

2003-10-13 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: see http://sa.vix.com/~vixie/comnetsurv/ this is not an icann thing btw, it's just me. OK, this is nit-picky, but the errors a wildcard will pick up are NOT 404 errors. A wild card could not possibly ever pick up a 404 error. Since 404 is a server error

Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue

2003-10-13 Thread Petri Helenius
Christopher X. Candreva wrote: I've seen this in the press repeatedly and it drives me almost as nuts as having to call DSL access hardware a modem. Your DSL access hardware would not be a too good DSL access hardware without a modem so I suggest you consider putting some money aside for

Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue

2003-10-13 Thread Bradley Dunn
Christopher X. Candreva wrote: I've seen this in the press repeatedly and it drives me almost as nuts as having to call DSL access hardware a modem. What's wrong with calling it a modem? It MOdulates and DEModulates between a digital bitstream and an analog signal. Bradley

RE: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue

2003-10-13 Thread Pete Templin
; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue Christopher X. Candreva wrote: I've seen this in the press repeatedly and it drives me almost as nuts as having to call DSL access hardware a modem. What's wrong with calling it a modem? It MOdulates

Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue

2003-10-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:17:14 -0500 From: Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] That suggests that it's an ASL (Analog Subscriber Line)... When the signal is placed on the wire, it is very analog. the digital signal is modulated onto the wire and demodulated off of