Re: [wg-c] breaking up (names) is hard to do

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 12:01 PM 8/23/99 , Mark C. Langston wrote:

>On 23 August 1999, Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com> wrote:
> >The answer, of course, is yes.  In particular, for-profit companies use
> >whatever leverage they have over their customers.
>
>But one could easily imagine policies that would prevent the registry
>from implementing this kind fo gouging.

One can easily imagine world peace.

The difficulty is in the achievement not the imagination.

> >>non-forwardable e-mail addresses on their *business* cards, they should
> >>know better, and I have no sympathy for them.  Personal e-mail addresses
> >
> >One hopes that such a cavalier and simplistic attitude is not prevalent.
>
>I note you cut of the important bit, which was that someone was using
>their PERSONAL email address on their BUSINESS cards.

Oh.  You are so right.  Inconvenience to PERSONAL users won't have any 
meaningful impact on *AOL's* business, will it?

d/

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