Verisign idiocy confusion

[Peter Bonivart]

How is this related to what we do? I don't like them abusing DNS for
commercial reasons either and have signed the previously mentioned
petition but isn't this more related to web surfing? Does it affect mail
delivery and/or spam fighting?

/Peter Bonivart

--Unix lovers do it in the Sun

Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, MailScanner 4.23-11, SpamAssassin 2.55, ClamAV
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Kevin Spicer wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 14:14, Gerry Doris wrote:
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>>How were they able to do this
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> Because they are not properly accountable to anyone
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>>and why would they want to???
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> Free advertising.
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> (although it doesn't seem to be getting them great publicity right now).
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> Whats potentially interesting is that they are abusing their position as
> registrar to get free advertising.  This gives them a competitive
> advantage over their competition (e.g. other certificate providers
> etc.).  Maybe someone big will sue them...