Text 2739, 56 rader
Skriven 2008-04-01 21:55:31 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
   Kommentar till text 2654 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Nomination
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 CS>> Mark, I'm editing only my local copy here on my own machine to
 CS>> make my software run smoother.  It has no effect on anyone.

 ml> maybe i'm misunderstanding something, then as the argument several
 ml> years back was to put one's domain name field 3 which i vehemently
 ml> objected to then as i do now...

 MvdV> If you want to waste your time by fighting windmills, go right
 MvdV> ahead. 

 MvdV> Fact is that this method has been in use for many years, 

and i was fighting back then!

 MvdV> is wide spread use, 

yeah, now... why? due to ignorance as well as a political move to push it as a
desirable method which i've also been fighting :(

 MvdV> therefore qualifies for documentation as a standard
 MvdV> and *has* been documented as a standard.

yeah... don't i know it... and suppose you tell me where everyone else is who
were also in opposition of this way back then??

 ml> the domain is not the FTN system name...

 MvdV> By putting the host name in the syatem name field those two
 MvdV> become one and the same.

bullshit... that's marketing talk, period.

 MvdV> Same thing happens in real life. leave the confines of your house
 MvdV> and take a look around you. Fqdn's are everywhere. On cars, on
 MvdV> trucks, om billboards. They are *used* as names.

real life is not fidonet... no matter how you twist it :?

and i've yet to see a billboard or even a credit card charge by any company
known as some internet domain... all of them refer to a "brick and mortar"
name... heck, i've just gotten a replacement power center for a tag-a-long RV
unit and the actual billing comes from RV Super Center or some such and nothing
like the web site that the order was placed with and processed from...

perhaps you need to take a closer look at real life businesses, their TCP/IP
domain names, and how they are recognized...

i have yet to see that the 2 liter bottles of Coke that i buy are sold by
coke.com  or coca-cola.com... their (system) name remains The Coca-Cola
Company...

;)

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