Please excuse the cross posting in advance, of interest to both groups. http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/foster/990308ef.htm Source: Info World Electric by Ed Foster March 8, 1999 Fe fi fo fum: ISPs, DNS registrants suffer at the hands of the NSI giant "...The basic complaint about NSI continues to be that the company's lack of competition allows it to get away with poor service to DNS registrants..." "...Christopher Clough, NSI director of corporate communications... 'there [will] be a bit of turmoil and confusion, and for small ISPs in particular there's going to be a lot of complexity.' The evolution to which Clough refers is the process by which NSI is supposedly giving up its monopoly on domain name registrations. But what is it really giving up? We'll talk about that next week..." -- P.A. Gantt, Computer Science Technology Instructor Electronic Media Design and Support Homepage http://user.icx.net/~pgantt/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=etech http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/vision/1998-11.asp Common sense is not common, and conventional wisdom is not wisdom. But at least you can have conventional sense. ~~ Daily Whale ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The NEW Web Consultants Association FORUMS and CHAT: Register Today at: http://just4u.com/forums/ Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants Give the Gift of Life This Year... Just4U Stop Smoking Support forum - helping smokers for over three years-tell a friend: http://just4u.com/forums/ To get 500 Banner Ads for FREE go to http://www.linkbuddies.com/start.go?id=111261 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
