Re: Draft New Draft

["William X. Walsh" <william@dso.net>]

OK, so you say that 70+ ccTLD managers read "The subject says it all" and
then just hit reply?

Come on Mr Broomfield.

And I notice you did not answer my comments about your misstatements on the
points of the 5 registries or any of the other rather salient parts of my
message.  Very telling indeed.



On 09-Feb-99 John Charles Broomfield wrote:
>  
> > >  -You came out in defence of the iaTLD and of its backing by 73 ccTLDs. I
> > >  pointed out that this backing was not as clear as it may seem.
> > 
> > No you did not point this out.  You laid a claim (that you unsuccessfully
> > made
> > when the IATLD was formed) that .GP's admin contact did not support
> > RFC1591. 
> > You had to stretch this so far to say that people answer emails by reading
> > only
> > the subject, and that the body of the email is "the small print" and not
> > expected to be read before someone sends in an answer. 
>  
>  You still haven't read what I have said. It's the BODY of that message that
>  states "Subject says it all". Process is as follows:
>  -you get a message with the sunjectline saying "Do you support RFC1591?"
>  (doesn't say anything else in subject).
>  -you open the message and the first line in the body says "Subject says it
>  all"
>  Most people who don't have English as a native language and who are inclined
>  to give people the benefit of the doubt would probably think that the
>  message is asking precisely what it says, ie "Do you support RFC-1591",
>  (after all, the first line in the message states that the subject says it
>  all).
>  The rest of the message goes on to ramble like crazy.
>  
>  If the message that iaTLD was a clear message with no "smallprint" then the
>  support that it has from the ccTLDs is only stating that they support
>  RFC-1591.
>  
>  If on the other hand you've got to carefully re-read the message then it
>  would seem that the iaTLD is trying to catch you out (and one could argue
>  that they "caught" 73 ccTLD admins).
>  
>  When the message says in the first line "Subject says it all", is it a lie?
>  
>  Got it now? No, didn't think you did.
>  
>  Yours, John Broomfield.

----------------------------------
E-Mail: William X. Walsh <william@dso.net>
Date: 09-Feb-99
Time: 12:50:53
----------------------------------
"We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes
of lawyers, hungry as locusts." 
- Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, 1977