Quoting Joe Baptista <baptista@pccf.net>:
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 brflgnk@cotse.com wrote:
At 05:06 PM 10/29/00 -0500, Joe said:
John Palmer is on the right track ..
This is the same John Palmer that once tried to unmoderate all of alt.*. I guess age does bring wisdom.
I don't know - I'll ask.
Actually, that wasn't a question. It's also the same John Palmer who mined UUCP maps and spammed paper junk mail to several thousand sysadmins offering the services of his Rabbit Network (whose logo Kibo once described as the ugliest in history). He was often described as Usenet's Best Bad Example, and was semi-immortalized with his own alt.fan newsgroup. I remember when he first started pushing alternative TLDs and urging people to use "sane" DNS that recognized them. At the time, I dismissed it as more of Mr. Palmer's wackiness. Little did I know that ICANN would rise up as it has, nor did I predict the Open Root Server Project. As I said, age brings wisdom (for all, it seems). You are correct that John Palmer is on the right track. I wish him success in his endeavour.