Troll poking. was Re: [ga] Unfair?

["Martin B. Schwimmer" <martys@interport.net>]

Dear Canis, Cohen, Cade, Maher:

Wouldn't you guys agree with me that medical and other services belong to
those who can pay their excessive costs?

btw, I haven't been able to figure out how to make domain names costly.
I've tried expensive litigation and one-sided DRPs, but nothing seems to
work.  Can you help?

p.s. Please don't use an open forum like the Internet to reply.  We don't
want to wake up the populace.


At 04:52 PM 12/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Mark C. Langston wrote:
>> 
>> Now, what was this about fairness?
>
>It's all a matter of perspective. From the point of view of people
>like Canis, Cohen, Schwimmer, Cade, Maher, etc., "fair" means giving
>to businesses whatever domain names they want, and then perhaps
>allowing others (the rif-raf) to pick from what's left over. Their
>values derive from one fundamental value: that money determines
>right. From that value flows their perspective on domain names as
>well as everything else. 
>Aren't these the same people who say that medical and other services
>belong to those who can pay their excessive costs? They haven't been
>able to figure out how to make domain names costly, so they have to
>win their imagined prerogatives some other way, through expensive
>litigation, or one-sided DRPs, or by controlling the allocation of
>names and numbers.
>
>Unfortunately for the rest of us, the U.S. Government, which once
>represented the populace at large and counteracted the manipulations
>of big business, has become the representative of those same special
>interests and is in a real sense against the best interests of the
>populace. The reason that business is getting its way with the
>Internet now is that the populace hasn't yet woken up to that fact.
>
>Michael Sondow
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