[wg-c] The Hooker Flap (was: URGENT silliness)

[Eric Brunner <brunner@world.std.com>]

What a send-up! First a hotmail subscriber derails this list (we were trying,
however fitfully, to figure out if for-profits == non-profits), and manages
to get buy-in on flooding some unsuspecting cc recipients with fragmented
he-said/she-said junk, no doubt adding to the collective stature of WG-C,
but (and this is the best part of this comedic moment) restates a familiar
position of:

	a) exclusive expropriation of the best interests of the users,
	b) a namespace hypothetical predicated upon tremendous clutter,
	c) a coherent world-view, not complicated by domain-specific
	   knowledge,
	d) distain for operational practice and pracitioners (tm & dns),
	e) non-consensus on fundamentals as dicta for a specific course
	   of action (his),

and concludes diametrically opposite on the specific course of action (no
new gTLDs) from his peer (many hundred new gTLDs).

I expecially enjoyed the contrast between the hotmail subscriber's awkward
and non-privileged voice and vocabulary, and the poised priviledge of our
contributor from Syracuse.

Its a break from the usual hate mail and ego investment stuff that passes
for traffic on this Working Group list.

Mail bombing higher up the food-chain is not useful. Jeff Williams, Jim
Flemming and others form an exclusive club Matt Hooker can join, which I
don't recommend to anuyone, not even his oddly similar nominal antagonist.

Topical closure via distraction is not useful. It is bad enough that the
predominant form of proof offered is by assertion or negation, or that
one entire party, apparently dominant, indulges systematically in the
use of ad hominum argument. Someone will always offer a hare, the trick is
not to go coursing after it wiith no more thought than a hound.

This list doesn't have to approximate worst-of-usenet.

Cheers,
Eric