Re: Thread 5: Defining the namespace

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Einar,

  Please read below your comments.

Einar Stefferud wrote:
> 
> >From Hank Nussbacher's message Sat, 28 Dec 1996 18:49:24 +0200 (IST):
> }
> }15 years ago no one imagined that the Internet would become the commercial
> }success it has become.  The only thing you can blame those who designed
> }COM and EDU is not being clairvoyant.
> }
> 
> You must be speaking mostly for yourself.
> 
> I have understood and openly stated that all this was coming ever
> since I first saw what it was in 1975, adn that is why I objected to
> the original set of 3letter DNS names when they were set up.

  I remember this situation myself very well, and spoke out
against it than also.  To no avail I might add.
> 
> The problem is not that no one had the vision.  The problem is that
> visionaries are mostly ignored until the facts of life become too
> broadly obvious to ignore any longer.  Such is the case here;-)...

  Yes, this is so true!  And a damn shame it is as well.
> 
> Please note that I am not particularly upset about people not
> listening to my pleas in the passt.  I just understand that this is
> how things unfold, so there is no point in going away in a huff to
> sulk in silence;-)...  The only rational behavior is to continue
> trying to see into the future.

  There ya go!  I agree totaly with you!
> 
> But, I do object to being told that no one foresaw what is now upon
> us.

  I do as well, and it is beginning to look that way here as well.

Regards,

> 
> Cheers...\Stef

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