Re: [ga] FYI

[WmsPtur@aol.com]

After reading all these messages for months, I was about to applaud Mr. 
Gaetano for:
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Roberto Gaetano wrote: 

> Folks,
> 
> For your information, I have asked DNSO Listadmin to prevent postings in
>  my name to be distributed to the GA List when not coming from my
> address.
> 
    Then, I received the gloating message, apparently from Mr. Baptista, that 
read:

>Date:  01/04/2000 11:42:35 AM Mountain Standard Time
>From:  roberto.gaetano@voila.fr (Roberto Gaetano)
>Sender:    owner-ga@dnso.org
>Reply-to:  <A HREF="mailto:roberto.gaetano@voila.fr">roberto.gaetano@voila.fr
</A>
>To:    ga@dnso.org

>Subject : Re: [ga] FYI

>This is Joe Baptista letting Roberto Gaetano know his attempt to censor 
failed,

>God bless unix and all who would sail in her.

    It would seem from the headers contained on this message from the 
redoubtable Mr. "Baptista", that he really is Mr. Gaetano.  This is all 
getting very confusing.  

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While I have nothing better to do than read all 247 posts from the 
<ga@dnso.org> that appeared between 1/4/2000 and 1/11/2000, it surprises me 
that this is anybody's idea of how this august group is supposed to forge :-) 
the New World Order of Domain Names and Numbers.  Perhaps, rather than 
dwelling on Mr. Baptista's antics, impressive as they may be, we ought to 
just go on about whatever the business is that this list once meant to be 
about.  If the noise level sometimes (far) exceeds the signal, there is 
always the delete button.  
    I have lately been registering domain names with more letters in them 
than anyone will ever want to type in.  I have not gotten up to 63 letters, 
but enough that I know I would not be willing go much further.  Since all of 
these names are just acronyms for the numbers that underlie them, and the 
names will eventually be meaningless by their sheer volume in every language, 
why not begin now to assign every address by number, like our telephone 
systems, or our credit cards, or our residential addresses, then let each 
country's trademark dispute system battle out the conflicts that arise 
between those who think they already own whatever slogan their number 
represents and those who would usurp that slogan.  At least, that way, we do 
not reinvent all the law and practice of intellectual property rights 
worldwide, without any reference to what has gone before.