this verisign wildcard silliness
Josef Grosch
jgrosch at gdead.mooseriver.com
Thu Sep 18 13:32:12 PDT 2003
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 04:13:13PM -0400, Marc Ramirez wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Brett Glass wrote:
>
> > At 01:06 PM 9/18/2003, Bill Moran wrote:
> >
> > >It makes me wish I had money lying around to hire a lawyer just to
> > >piss off Verisign.
> >
> > This situation is ripe for a class action.
> >
> > Maybe one of the big law firms that loves to do these, such as
> > Milberg Weiss, would take it on.
> >
> > --Brett Glass
>
> Before you do anything rash...
>
> We first have to remember to "follow the money." (Thank you, Deep Throat)
>
> Now, yes, VeriSign may have a lot to gain from this, but let's face it:
> Internet ads don't work. Now stay with me.
>
> Internet ads don't make people buy things, they make people annoyed.
>
> In this case, annoyed at what? At their typing skills, obviously.
>
> Now, very soon we'll have lots of annoyed internet users cursing their
> stubby little jello fingers. Who would stand to profit from this?
>
> Maybe, just maybe, Mavis.
>
> As in, Mavis Beacon.
>
> As in, that's right! Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a.k.a Broderbund
> Software! Who else, indeed?
>
> Notice that Broderbund has stayed mum on the issue of the wildcard record,
> _unlike every one else on the internet_.
>
> Also, note well their affiliation between Broderbund and the _notorious_
> Bank Street College of Education at bnkst.edu -- the .edu tld seems to be
> miraculously free of the wildcard nonsense. And remember that the fruit
> of their collaboration, Bank Street Writer, had _no spell check_.
> Coincidence? You be the judge.
>
> Could Broderbund be silently be staging a comeback? Are they and VeriSign
> forming an ogliopo, I mean, olligiopo, I mean, oligipiolo -- crap --
> corporate Death Star? I'm afraid that's all I can say on the subject for
> now. Remember people, follow the money!
>
> Marc.
Nothing I love more than a good conspiracy theory....
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