Geoff Thompson wrote:
Simon Lyall wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Andy Gardner wrote:
4service(a)domainz.net.nz
I wonder if I am the only person who thinks of things like send-me-some-warez-d00d(a)domainz.net.nz everytime I see that address? It just goes with the general dumbing-down of the Internet, where NSI now sells web addresses, rather than domain names.
RFC 2142
I'm sure that there have been some pretty dubious RFC's written in the past by people seeking fame. I definately doesn't mean that the world has to adopt them all.
I'd hardly call Dave Crocker and Paul Vixie 'dubious RFC authors seeking fame'.
But then we'll end up in a discussion about the importance of standards, and someone will joke about Microsoft standards, and then the discussion will turn into......
Just try explaining the address '4service(a)domainz.net.nz' over the phone to any random clueless person, just once. Suffer through numerous corrections of any combination of 'for', '4', 'service', 'domains', 'domain', 'domains', 'domainz', '.net', '.co' and so on. Wait patiently through the inevitable half hour diversion into whether or not you can have a number in an email address. Fume quietly while clueless person says (in tones of deep distrust), "Well, *I'VE* never seen that before ... are you _sure_?". Notice how the combination of 31337 w4r3z d00d mailbox name and saccarine pun on 'domains' and 'NZ' makes your job just that little bit harder than it really needs to be. Curse Domainz. Contemplate outsourcing all of your DNS services to some third party, just so you don't have to deal with this sort of crap.
Did I bother sending this??? Geesh.
Heh, I can't believe I bothered replying to it. Slow day at the office. Regards, Rob. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog